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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper head crop
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image showing a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. The face is centered in the frame with a light background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's eyes are open, the nose is prominent, and the mouth appears to be closed. The hair is dark and visible on the left and right sides of the head. The image is cropped to show only the upper portion of the head, from the top of the head to the chin. The background is light and uniform. The image has a grainy texture due to pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • low resolution head crop
  • grainy texture grayscale
  • centered face light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be 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 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

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • hair
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • cropped
  • grainy texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711222034551779316692
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/3b/3b620b505b03f92bf1de03eb700875deba368e5ff0811acd26fd7bfd8f831ba9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
3b620b505b03f92b
SHA-256
3b620b505b03f92bf1de03eb700875deba368e5ff0811acd26fd7bfd8f831ba9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069358

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,644 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 730

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered face
  • upper head crop
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image showing a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. The face is centered in the frame with a light background. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. The person's eyes are open, the nose is prominent, and the mouth appears to be closed. The hair is dark and visible on the left and right sides of the head. The image is cropped to show only the upper portion of the head, from the top of the head to the chin. The background is light and uniform. The image has a grainy texture due to pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, cropped to show only the upper portion of the head.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • low resolution head crop
  • grainy texture grayscale
  • centered face light background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be 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 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
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  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • hair
  • light background
  • low resolution
  • cropped
  • grainy texture
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200711222034551779316692
Archive entry
200711222034551779316692.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711222034551779316692.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711222034551779316692.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016