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Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area.

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Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area.

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered subject
  • solid white background
  • cropped to upper face and neck

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixelated image of a person's upper face and neck. The subject has short dark hair styled upward. The face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes, a straight nose, and a closed mouth. The image uses grayscale tones with high contrast between light and dark areas. The background is solid white. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders. The pixelation is uniform across the entire image, creating a blocky appearance. No visible clothing details beyond the top of a dark garment at the bottom edge. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area.

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
  • 200708141015441808347662
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated black-and-white portrait
  • person with short dark hair
  • neutral expression closed eyes
  • grayscale head and shoulders
  • solid white background pixel art
  • monochrome cropped to upper face
  • blocky appearance no text
  • closed mouth straight nose

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

Wordwall

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • short dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • straight nose
  • closed mouth
  • grayscale
  • high contrast
  • solid white background
  • cropped to head and shoulders
  • blocky appearance
  • no visible clothing
  • no text
  • upper face and neck

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708141015441808347662
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
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/4911db1e4f9f13221e88cd3184105d5123e767e651a80d2ee2cd1623b090bd75.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
4911db1e4f9f1322
SHA-256
4911db1e4f9f13221e88cd3184105d5123e767e651a80d2ee2cd1623b090bd75
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 18:31 UTC
Run
1343
Input
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Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010129

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,606 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 817

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered subject
  • solid white background
  • cropped to upper face and neck

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixelated image of a person's upper face and neck. The subject has short dark hair styled upward. The face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes, a straight nose, and a closed mouth. The image uses grayscale tones with high contrast between light and dark areas. The background is solid white. The image is cropped to show the head and upper shoulders. The pixelation is uniform across the entire image, creating a blocky appearance. No visible clothing details beyond the top of a dark garment at the bottom edge. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible neck and shoulder area.

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
  • 200708141015441808347662
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated black-and-white portrait
  • person with short dark hair
  • neutral expression closed eyes
  • grayscale head and shoulders
  • solid white background pixel art
  • monochrome cropped to upper face
  • blocky appearance no text
  • closed mouth straight nose

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
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  • closed mouth
  • grayscale
  • high contrast
  • solid white background
  • cropped to head and shoulders
  • blocky appearance
  • no visible clothing
  • no text
  • upper face and neck
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:35 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
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
200708141015441808347662
Archive entry
200708141015441808347662.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#200708141015441808347662.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708141015441808347662.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016