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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to head and neck
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person's face in profile view, head turned slightly right. Visible features include short dark hair, left ear, closed eyes, nose, mouth with subtle smile. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no clothing or props visible. Composition is cropped to show head and upper neck. Rendering style is monochrome with high contrast between light skin tones and dark background.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark 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
  • 200708011953302140757163

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated profile
  • short dark hair left ear
  • closed eyes subtle smile
  • solid black background monochrome

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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

  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • left ear visible
  • closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • solid black background
  • low resolution
  • monochrome
  • high contrast
  • cropped to head and neck

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708011953302140757163
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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/49/49d4e47b2209af990223a43f115862738077c99341c0a6ba9dd0a8674265ecca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
49d4e47b2209af99
SHA-256
49d4e47b2209af990223a43f115862738077c99341c0a6ba9dd0a8674265ecca
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077001

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,721 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 725

Review tags

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

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to head and neck
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person's face in profile view, head turned slightly right. Visible features include short dark hair, left ear, closed eyes, nose, mouth with subtle smile. Background is solid black. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation, no clothing or props visible. Composition is cropped to show head and upper neck. Rendering style is monochrome with high contrast between light skin tones and dark background.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and neutral expression against a dark 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
  • 200708011953302140757163

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black-and-white pixelated profile
  • short dark hair left ear
  • closed eyes subtle smile
  • solid black background monochrome

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • left ear visible
  • closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • solid black background
  • low resolution
  • monochrome
  • high contrast
  • cropped to head and neck
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:05 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
200708011953302140757163
Archive entry
200708011953302140757163.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#200708011953302140757163.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708011953302140757163.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016