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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized human face with exaggerated features against a dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized human face with exaggerated features against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • vertical streaks on edges
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale depiction of a stylized human face. The face has an elongated, rounded top with a smooth, light gray surface. Two large, dark oval eyes are positioned horizontally, with the left eye slightly higher than the right. A broad, dark, curved shape forms the nose, extending downward from the center of the face. The mouth is a wide, dark, curved line below the nose. The face has a smooth, featureless chin and jawline. The background is entirely black, with faint, vertical, pixelated streaks of dark gray and brown on the left and right edges. The overall style is abstract and minimalistic, with no visible text or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized human face with exaggerated features against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200708081213589044981

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale face
  • stylized human face dark background
  • abstract minimalistic face
  • low-resolution pixelated face

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

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  • pixelated grayscale
  • stylized human face
  • exaggerated features
  • dark background
  • vertical streaks
  • abstract minimalistic
  • low-resolution
  • smooth surface
  • dark oval eyes
  • broad curved nose
  • wide curved mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708081213589044981
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e28271aa4f63a9f10f940849c99057aee166c3a05d42bfccb39bca9166fef89.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
3e28271aa4f63a9f
SHA-256
3e28271aa4f63a9f10f940849c99057aee166c3a05d42bfccb39bca9166fef89
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077501

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized human face with exaggerated features against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,046 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 771

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
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  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • minimalistic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • dark gray
  • brown

Composition

  • centered face
  • vertical streaks on edges
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale depiction of a stylized human face. The face has an elongated, rounded top with a smooth, light gray surface. Two large, dark oval eyes are positioned horizontally, with the left eye slightly higher than the right. A broad, dark, curved shape forms the nose, extending downward from the center of the face. The mouth is a wide, dark, curved line below the nose. The face has a smooth, featureless chin and jawline. The background is entirely black, with faint, vertical, pixelated streaks of dark gray and brown on the left and right edges. The overall style is abstract and minimalistic, with no visible text or additional objects.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized human face with exaggerated features against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200708081213589044981

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • mysterious
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale face
  • stylized human face dark background
  • abstract minimalistic face
  • low-resolution pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • abstract
  • minimalistic

Subjects

  • stylized human face

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  • stylized human face
  • exaggerated features
  • dark background
  • vertical streaks
  • abstract minimalistic
  • low-resolution
  • smooth surface
  • dark oval eyes
  • broad curved nose
  • wide curved mouth
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:51 UTC
Run
52
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708081213589044981
Archive entry
200708081213589044981.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708081213589044981.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708081213589044981.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016