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Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background.

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Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background.

Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three-figure arrangement
  • central figure flanked by two partial profiles
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image of three human figures. Central figure: full face visible, closed eyes, subtle smile, long neck, dark hair extending to shoulders. Left figure: partial profile showing right eye and nose, light-toned skin. Right figure: partial profile showing left eye and cheek, light-toned skin. All faces rendered with low-resolution pixelation. Background is solid black. No text or symbols visible.

Description

Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712101527111009009563

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three pixelated faces grayscale
  • central figure closed eyes smile
  • partial profiles dark background
  • low-resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • three human figures
  • grayscale static image
  • central face closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • long neck
  • dark hair shoulders
  • left partial profile eye
  • right partial profile cheek
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • solid black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712101527111009009563
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
36da48762c475f70
SHA-256
36da48762c475f700aaed42cbeec38430dedf3ab7b717dd90582d4ab66c5e27d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093046

OpenAI category scores

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Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,763 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 724

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • three-figure arrangement
  • central figure flanked by two partial profiles
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image of three human figures. Central figure: full face visible, closed eyes, subtle smile, long neck, dark hair extending to shoulders. Left figure: partial profile showing right eye and nose, light-toned skin. Right figure: partial profile showing left eye and cheek, light-toned skin. All faces rendered with low-resolution pixelation. Background is solid black. No text or symbols visible.

Description

Three pixelated faces in grayscale, centered figure with closed eyes and slight smile flanked by two partial profiles against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712101527111009009563

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • central figure closed eyes smile
  • partial profiles dark background
  • low-resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • static

Subjects

  • human figures
  • faces
  • partial profiles

Wordwall

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  • grayscale static image
  • central face closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • long neck
  • dark hair shoulders
  • left partial profile eye
  • right partial profile cheek
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • solid black background
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200712101527111009009563
Archive entry
200712101527111009009563.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712101527111009009563.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712101527111009009563.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016