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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a close-up of a person's face with dark hair, brown skin tone, and neutral expression. The face is positioned slightly left of center with visible ear on right side. Background is dark and indistinct. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects present. Lighting appears to be frontal with subtle shadows on right side of face.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708311244421012892987
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person face dark hair
  • brown skin neutral expression
  • low resolution close-up
  • dark background pixelated image

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 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

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • dark hair
  • brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • frontal lighting
  • subtle shadows

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708311244421012892987
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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/40/4026e57b727530ebac737b6af7f20f64c47135911a4200b8b8b38c5661863061.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
4026e57b727530eb
SHA-256
4026e57b727530ebac737b6af7f20f64c47135911a4200b8b8b38c5661863061
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079318

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 786

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a close-up of a person's face with dark hair, brown skin tone, and neutral expression. The face is positioned slightly left of center with visible ear on right side. Background is dark and indistinct. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects present. Lighting appears to be frontal with subtle shadows on right side of face.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and brown skin tone against a dark 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708311244421012892987
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person face dark hair
  • brown skin neutral expression
  • low resolution close-up
  • dark background pixelated image

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: 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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • brown skin
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • dark background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:47 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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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
200708311244421012892987
Archive entry
200708311244421012892987.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708311244421012892987.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708311244421012892987.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016