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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered skull
  • partial hair top
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified human skull viewed from the front-left angle. The skull has solid black eye sockets and nasal cavity, with visible teeth in the lower jaw. The top portion shows partial hair or head covering in darker gray tones. Background is plain off-white with subtle gradient. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081010171636476714031
  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale skull pixel art
  • dark eye sockets teeth
  • tilted right skull
  • pixelated off-white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • skull

Wordwall

  • grayscale skull
  • dark eye sockets
  • nasal cavity
  • teeth visible
  • tilted right
  • pixelated
  • off-white background
  • partial hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081010171636476714031
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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/3b/3bdd96ae5c41c980f053e57a7d934b71a54d37c32ae2447051c60abe407f796e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
3bdd96ae5c41c980
SHA-256
3bdd96ae5c41c980f053e57a7d934b71a54d37c32ae2447051c60abe407f796e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 22:31 UTC
Run
1306
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001184

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.080189

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,478 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • off-white

Composition

  • centered skull
  • partial hair top
  • light background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified human skull viewed from the front-left angle. The skull has solid black eye sockets and nasal cavity, with visible teeth in the lower jaw. The top portion shows partial hair or head covering in darker gray tones. Background is plain off-white with subtle gradient. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with dark eye sockets and nasal cavity, tilted slightly right against light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081010171636476714031
  • franksicons

Mood

  • neutral
  • somber

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale skull pixel art
  • dark eye sockets teeth
  • tilted right skull
  • pixelated off-white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • simplified

Subjects

  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • skull

Wordwall

  • grayscale skull
  • dark eye sockets
  • nasal cavity
  • teeth visible
  • tilted right
  • pixelated
  • off-white background
  • partial hair
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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
20081010171636476714031
Archive entry
20081010171636476714031.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081010171636476714031.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081010171636476714031.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016