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A person with short dark hair appears in three variations of facial expression and head position against a light background with faint blue patterns.

A person with short dark hair appears in three variations of facial expression and head position against a light background with faint blue patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head tilt left to right
  • eyes open to closed
  • mouth slightly closed

Animation Summary

The animation shows three variations of the person's head position and facial expression: head tilted left with eyes open, head tilted right with mouth slightly closed, and eyes closed with head tilted left.

Composition

  • three views
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short dark hair and light skin. The top-left view shows the person with a neutral expression, eyes open, and head slightly tilted left. The top-right view shows the person with a slightly closed mouth and head tilted right. The bottom-left view shows the person with eyes closed and head tilted left. The background is light with faint blue patterns. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

A person with short dark hair appears in three variations of facial expression and head position against a light background with faint blue patterns.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809200803172054913467
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: historical-archive
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person short dark hair
  • light skin neutral expression
  • head tilted left
  • eyes closed
  • faint blue patterns background
  • pixelated animation
  • three views
  • buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809200803172054913467
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • eyes open
  • head tilted left
  • slightly closed mouth
  • head tilted right
  • eyes closed
  • light background
  • faint blue patterns
  • pixelated appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809200803172054913467
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3f9ac99d87388df36c720b086e8bb04c2e4b96dec4c9a27c0c2c90c59fdd9b7a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
3f9ac99d87388df3
SHA-256
3f9ac99d87388df36c720b086e8bb04c2e4b96dec4c9a27c0c2c90c59fdd9b7a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 20:05 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002750

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
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Overall label
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A person with short dark hair appears in three variations of facial expression and head position against a light background with faint blue patterns.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,807 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 854

Review tags

  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted left (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted right (action, 0.80)
  • mouth slightly closed (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head tilted left
  • head tilted right
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • mouth slightly closed

Animation

  • head tilt left to right
  • eyes open to closed
  • mouth slightly closed

Animation Summary

The animation shows three variations of the person's head position and facial expression: head tilted left with eyes open, head tilted right with mouth slightly closed, and eyes closed with head tilted left.

Colors

  • light
  • blue
  • dark brown
  • beige

Composition

  • three views
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with short dark hair and light skin. The top-left view shows the person with a neutral expression, eyes open, and head slightly tilted left. The top-right view shows the person with a slightly closed mouth and head tilted right. The bottom-left view shows the person with eyes closed and head tilted left. The background is light with faint blue patterns. The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

A person with short dark hair appears in three variations of facial expression and head position against a light background with faint blue patterns.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • anime
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • aim
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809200803172054913467
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: historical-archive
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person short dark hair
  • light skin neutral expression
  • head tilted left
  • eyes closed
  • faint blue patterns background
  • pixelated animation
  • three views
  • buddy icon animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809200803172054913467
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • eyes open
  • head tilted left
  • slightly closed mouth
  • head tilted right
  • eyes closed
  • light background
  • faint blue patterns
  • pixelated appearance
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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
200809200803172054913467
Archive entry
200809200803172054913467.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809200803172054913467.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809200803172054913467.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016