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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up face
  • centered subject
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up showing a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short, dark grayish-brown hair styled in a slightly tousled manner with some strands falling over the forehead. Skin tone appears medium brown. Visible facial features include closed eyes (suggesting a relaxed or smiling expression), a broad nose, full lips forming a slight smile, and ears partially visible on both sides of the head. The background consists of blurred horizontal bands: yellow on the left side, light gray at the top, and pinkish-red tones below. Pixelation is prominent across all areas, indicating low resolution or heavy compression.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person close-up
  • brown skin smiling face
  • yellow gray red background bands
  • short dark hair pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed, causing pixelation

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • short dark hair
  • medium brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • broad nose
  • full lips
  • yellow background band
  • gray top background
  • pinkish-red lower background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712272231161769745946
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/50/501600730cf6ad799e744423e23f128e2f366c178ef9f6954733789ff720bb25.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
501600730cf6ad79
SHA-256
501600730cf6ad799e744423e23f128e2f366c178ef9f6954733789ff720bb25
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.186799

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,116 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 749

Review tags

  • smiling implied by mouth shape (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • content (mood, 0.80)
  • relaxed (mood, 0.80)
  • blurred background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling (implied by mouth shape)

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • yellow
  • red

Composition

  • close-up face
  • centered subject
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up showing a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short, dark grayish-brown hair styled in a slightly tousled manner with some strands falling over the forehead. Skin tone appears medium brown. Visible facial features include closed eyes (suggesting a relaxed or smiling expression), a broad nose, full lips forming a slight smile, and ears partially visible on both sides of the head. The background consists of blurred horizontal bands: yellow on the left side, light gray at the top, and pinkish-red tones below. Pixelation is prominent across all areas, indicating low resolution or heavy compression.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, brown skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • relaxed
  • content

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person close-up
  • brown skin smiling face
  • yellow gray red background bands
  • short dark hair pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed, causing pixelation

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blurred background

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • short dark hair
  • medium brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • broad nose
  • full lips
  • yellow background band
  • gray top background
  • pinkish-red lower 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
200712272231161769745946
Archive entry
200712272231161769745946.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712272231161769745946.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712272231161769745946.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016