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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • vertical framing
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human head in right-facing profile. The subject has short, dark hair; closed eyes; visible nose, lips, and chin; and no facial hair. Background is plain light gray with subtle darker vertical edges on left and right sides of the frame. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s buddy icons.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile face
  • pixelated dark hair closed eyes
  • low-resolution grayscale head
  • serene pixel art portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • no facial hair
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909204830758602166
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36ec0e79a81e67042c20466bcc182928e68f0b9feb352d66df8ccd51f9e62f80.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
36ec0e79a81e6704
SHA-256
36ec0e79a81e67042c20466bcc182928e68f0b9feb352d66df8ccd51f9e62f80
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
0.096587

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,869 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 629

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • contemplative (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human head right facing profile (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • vertical framing
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human head in right-facing profile. The subject has short, dark hair; closed eyes; visible nose, lips, and chin; and no facial hair. Background is plain light gray with subtle darker vertical edges on left and right sides of the frame. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s buddy icons.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face in profile view with closed eyes and dark hair against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • serene
  • contemplative

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile face
  • pixelated dark hair closed eyes
  • low-resolution grayscale head
  • serene pixel art portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (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

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution digital rendering

Subjects

  • human head (right-facing profile)

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • no facial hair
  • light 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
20070909204830758602166
Archive entry
20070909204830758602166.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070909204830758602166.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909204830758602166.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016