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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set against a blurred background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set against a blurred background.

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has dark hair, a visible eye with a reflective highlight, and a distinct red mark on the right cheek. The background is blurred with indistinct brown and green tones. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography or compressed file formats. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • red mark on cheek
  • dark hair eye
  • blurred brown green background
  • grainy low-resolution image
  • person with red cheek mark
  • pixelated eye reflection
  • brown green background tones

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • visible eye
  • red mark
  • blurred background
  • brown tones
  • green tones
  • grainy appearance

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070728150734618434308
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
3c866c1c78d41bea
SHA-256
3c866c1c78d41bead6db3c2817fa8d19c38fae07e709c3bea3b816fa89736727
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 17:06 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010141

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 10:03 UTC
Run
1245
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
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107
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,487 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has dark hair, a visible eye with a reflective highlight, and a distinct red mark on the right cheek. The background is blurred with indistinct brown and green tones. The image has a low-resolution, grainy appearance typical of early digital photography or compressed file formats. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, a visible eye, and a red mark on the cheek, set 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red mark on cheek
  • dark hair eye
  • blurred brown green background
  • grainy low-resolution image
  • person with red cheek mark
  • pixelated eye reflection
  • brown green background tones

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • visible eye
  • red mark
  • blurred background
  • brown tones
  • green tones
  • grainy appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
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Error
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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
20070728150734618434308
Archive entry
20070728150734618434308.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070728150734618434308.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070728150734618434308.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016