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Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background.

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Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background.

Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial crop
  • head-focused
  • white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a cartoon-style head with brown skin tone, black hair styled in a short cut, and a neutral expression. The head is cropped to show the top of the neck, with visible features including two eyes with white pupils and gray irises, thick black eyebrows, a small nose, and a mouth with a slight upward curve. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and dithering effects. The right side of the head is partially cropped out of the frame.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background.

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
  • 20070802152338463277636

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown skin cartoon head
  • black hair pixelated face
  • neutral expression white background
  • cartoon head dithering effects
  • pixelated brown skin face
  • white background cartoon head
  • neutral cartoon face
  • cartoon head partial crop

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from a smaller original

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

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • brown skin
  • black hair
  • neutral expression
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • two eyes
  • thick eyebrows
  • small nose
  • slight mouth curve
  • solid white background
  • limited color palette
  • dithering effects
  • partial crop
  • top of neck visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070802152338463277636
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/477015e660c0d71f46d2307a57e7c7bfa12fd6748ca9e444336dc82c2eeca409.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
477015e660c0d71f
SHA-256
477015e660c0d71f46d2307a57e7c7bfa12fd6748ca9e444336dc82c2eeca409
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Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 09:30 UTC
Run
10809
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
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Overall score
0.000101

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,918 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 781

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • partial crop
  • head-focused
  • white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a cartoon-style head with brown skin tone, black hair styled in a short cut, and a neutral expression. The head is cropped to show the top of the neck, with visible features including two eyes with white pupils and gray irises, thick black eyebrows, a small nose, and a mouth with a slight upward curve. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation and dithering effects. The right side of the head is partially cropped out of the frame.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style head with brown skin, black hair, and a neutral expression, showing partial facial features against a white background.

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
  • 20070802152338463277636

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • black hair pixelated face
  • neutral expression white background
  • cartoon head dithering effects
  • pixelated brown skin face
  • white background cartoon head
  • neutral cartoon face
  • cartoon head partial crop

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon head

Wordwall

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  • black hair
  • neutral expression
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • two eyes
  • thick eyebrows
  • small nose
  • slight mouth curve
  • solid white background
  • limited color palette
  • dithering effects
  • partial crop
  • top of neck visible
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July 27, 2026 at 10:11 UTC
Run
52
Version
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Elapsed
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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
20070802152338463277636
Archive entry
20070802152338463277636.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070802152338463277636.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070802152338463277636.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016