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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to face

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person has a slight smile, eyes looking left, and visible freckles on the cheeks. The background is blurred with indistinct light and dark areas. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • close-up smiling face freckles
  • low-resolution blocky image
  • blurred background person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • slight smile
  • eyes looking left
  • freckles
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080730150909485565935
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807301512001339712457
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807301509321970001968
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/381efbde9818cb59e65ea5c801b2fcc09e8f2aa45cb034943a0a3f78e02688e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
381efbde9818cb59
SHA-256
381efbde9818cb59e65ea5c801b2fcc09e8f2aa45cb034943a0a3f78e02688e4
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 23:39 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001141

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.279526

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,623 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,179, response 653

Review tags

  • looking left (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle smile (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • looking left

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • beige
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to face

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin. The person has a slight smile, eyes looking left, and visible freckles on the cheeks. The background is blurred with indistinct light and dark areas. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early 2000s digital imagery. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, smiling slightly with eyes looking left, against a blurred 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral
  • subtle smile

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • close-up smiling face freckles
  • low-resolution blocky image
  • blurred background person

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • slight smile
  • eyes looking left
  • freckles
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
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Full source records (3)

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
20080730150909485565935
Archive entry
20080730150909485565935.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080730150909485565935.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080730150909485565935.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200807301512001339712457
Archive entry
200807301512001339712457.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807301512001339712457.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807301512001339712457.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200807301509321970001968
Archive entry
200807301509321970001968.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807301509321970001968.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807301509321970001968.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016