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Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair.

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Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair.

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped upper face
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair. The face is centered with visible forehead, closed eyes, nose, and mouth. Hair appears dark and textured, extending beyond the face. The background is a gradient of light to dark gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070815162857971096509
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression upper face
  • low resolution grayscale image
  • cropped face gradient background
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • grayscale closed eyes
  • dark hair neutral 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 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

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • upper face
  • cropped
  • gradient background
  • low resolution
  • no text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070815162857971096509
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/4257f88c8455e15897c8f91388298f08d8c1d01f0dea05062deb756171e47703.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4257f88c8455e158
SHA-256
4257f88c8455e15897c8f91388298f08d8c1d01f0dea05062deb756171e47703
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 00:11 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000021

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 16:45 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001184falseself-harm0.000479falsesexual0.000032falseviolence/graphic0.000018falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.684478

OpenAI category scores

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

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,982 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 748

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped upper face
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair. The face is centered with visible forehead, closed eyes, nose, and mouth. Hair appears dark and textured, extending beyond the face. The background is a gradient of light to dark gray. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, dark hair, and a neutral expression, cropped to show only the upper face and hair.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070815162857971096509
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression upper face
  • low resolution grayscale image
  • cropped face gradient background
  • pixelated neutral expression
  • grayscale closed eyes
  • dark hair neutral 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 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
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
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  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • upper face
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:46 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)
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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
20070815162857971096509
Archive entry
20070815162857971096509.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070815162857971096509.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070815162857971096509.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016