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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression against a light gray background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression against a light gray background.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • head and upper neck
  • centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression. The background is solid light gray. The image shows the head and upper neck, with visible ears. The person has dark eyes, a straight nose, and a closed mouth. The pixelation is uniform across the entire image, with no visible clothing or accessories. The lighting appears even, with no strong shadows or highlights.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression against a light gray 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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200903101745481175512223

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person face
  • light brown skin neutral expression
  • short dark hair light gray background
  • closed mouth dark eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • uniform pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • light brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • light gray background
  • visible ears
  • dark eyes
  • straight nose
  • closed mouth
  • even lighting
  • no clothing
  • no accessories
  • upper neck visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903101745481175512223
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3743cd35c93b823a86b57a102f78ef9f656589aa70920891aed706133230a73a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
3743cd35c93b823a
SHA-256
3743cd35c93b823a86b57a102f78ef9f656589aa70920891aed706133230a73a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.084927

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression against a light gray background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,791 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 797

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • head and upper neck
  • centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression. The background is solid light gray. The image shows the head and upper neck, with visible ears. The person has dark eyes, a straight nose, and a closed mouth. The pixelation is uniform across the entire image, with no visible clothing or accessories. The lighting appears even, with no strong shadows or highlights.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light brown skin, and a neutral expression against a light gray 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: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200903101745481175512223

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • light brown skin neutral expression
  • short dark hair light gray background
  • closed mouth dark eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • uniform pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • person

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  • short dark hair
  • light brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • light gray background
  • visible ears
  • dark eyes
  • straight nose
  • closed mouth
  • even lighting
  • no clothing
  • no accessories
  • upper neck visible
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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
200903101745481175512223
Archive entry
200903101745481175512223.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903101745481175512223.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903101745481175512223.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016