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Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions.

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Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions.

Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • consistent cropping

Dense Caption

The asset consists of four static views arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: person facing left with neutral expression against muted green background; top-right: person smiling broadly against solid blue background wearing striped shirt; bottom-left: person smiling widely against light blue background wearing dark clothing; bottom-right: person smiling slightly against white and blue patterned background. All views show short black hair, fair skin, and visible ears. Pixelation is consistent across all four images.

Description

  • Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803171454381757282836
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803171454381757282836

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • short black hair person
  • smiling broad smile blue background
  • neutral expression green background
  • striped shirt light blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; four static views presented as chronological observations of one asset
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short black hair
  • fair skin
  • neutral expression
  • broad smile
  • slight smile
  • striped shirt
  • dark clothing
  • muted green background
  • solid blue background
  • light blue background
  • white and blue patterned background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803171454381757282836
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/49a8efe77974affa9212d12fc89eb10bbae504e835aa03c895a40aecebd71983.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
49a8efe77974affa
SHA-256
49a8efe77974affa9212d12fc89eb10bbae504e835aa03c895a40aecebd71983
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096905

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,257 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 785

Review tags

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  • smiling broadly (action, 0.80)
  • smiling slightly (action, 0.80)
  • smiling widely (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • fair skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facing left
  • smiling broadly
  • smiling widely
  • smiling slightly

Colors

  • black
  • fair skin tone
  • muted green
  • solid blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • blue patterned

Composition

  • centered subject
  • consistent cropping

Dense Caption

The asset consists of four static views arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: person facing left with neutral expression against muted green background; top-right: person smiling broadly against solid blue background wearing striped shirt; bottom-left: person smiling widely against light blue background wearing dark clothing; bottom-right: person smiling slightly against white and blue patterned background. All views show short black hair, fair skin, and visible ears. Pixelation is consistent across all four images.

Description

  • Four pixelated images of a person with short dark hair in different poses and backgrounds, each showing distinct facial expressions.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803171454381757282836
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803171454381757282836

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • short black hair person
  • smiling broad smile blue background
  • neutral expression green background
  • striped shirt light blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; four static views presented as chronological observations of one asset
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

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  • fair skin
  • neutral expression
  • broad smile
  • slight smile
  • striped shirt
  • dark clothing
  • muted green background
  • solid blue background
  • light blue background
  • white and blue patterned background
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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
200803171454381757282836
Archive entry
200803171454381757282836.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803171454381757282836.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803171454381757282836.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016