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Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • tight crop
  • close-up
  • black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light-colored hair, hand positioned near the face with fingers extended, wearing dark clothing with visible light-colored collar, against solid black background. The face shows a broad smile with visible teeth, eyes appear closed or squinted, and the image has low-resolution pixelation with warm-toned skin and clothing colors. The right side of the face is more visible than the left, with the hand partially obscuring the left side of the face. The image is cropped tightly around the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black 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

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person hand near face smiling
  • pixelated close-up black background
  • light hair dark clothing smiling
  • hand partially obscures face

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • cropped tightly

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

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  • light hair
  • hand near face
  • dark clothing
  • black background
  • broad smile
  • closed eyes
  • pixelated
  • warm skin tones
  • hand partially obscures face
  • tight crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708261727491171562997
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/47/47948c726e2bb077d4c4797c4c5c7f181b66c3af23cdffe52709a16dc8bf9cf1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
47948c726e2bb077
SHA-256
47948c726e2bb077d4c4797c4c5c7f181b66c3af23cdffe52709a16dc8bf9cf1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:58 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127415

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,416 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 732

Review tags

  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near face
  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • light brown
  • tan
  • dark blue
  • red

Composition

  • tight crop
  • close-up
  • black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person with light-colored hair, hand positioned near the face with fingers extended, wearing dark clothing with visible light-colored collar, against solid black background. The face shows a broad smile with visible teeth, eyes appear closed or squinted, and the image has low-resolution pixelation with warm-toned skin and clothing colors. The right side of the face is more visible than the left, with the hand partially obscuring the left side of the face. The image is cropped tightly around the head and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with light hair, hand near face, wearing dark clothing against black 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

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person hand near face smiling
  • pixelated close-up black background
  • light hair dark clothing smiling
  • hand partially obscures face

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • cropped tightly

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light hair
  • hand near face
  • dark clothing
  • black background
  • broad smile
  • closed eyes
  • pixelated
  • warm skin tones
  • hand partially obscures face
  • tight crop
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:14 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)
Raw JSON
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
200708261727491171562997
Archive entry
200708261727491171562997.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708261727491171562997.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708261727491171562997.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016