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Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixelated image of a human face. The face is centered with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead. The left eye appears slightly larger than the right eye. The mouth is closed with a neutral expression. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The lighting creates a gradient effect on the face, with the forehead and nose being the brightest areas. The image is cropped to show only the face and upper neck.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • human face pixel art
  • black and white pixelated face
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • low resolution face image
  • monochrome face with solid background
  • pixelated human face neutral
  • face with left eye larger
  • black background pixel art face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution scan or compressed version of a higher-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • human face
  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • closed mouth
  • left eye larger
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution
  • gradient lighting
  • forehead brightest
  • cropped to face

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
3257
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:49 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/50/506137f9e674299a664a4de0f58d6c86d4356ccb6afcbb105dbc462123aa9d92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Archive ID
506137f9e674299a
SHA-256
506137f9e674299a664a4de0f58d6c86d4356ccb6afcbb105dbc462123aa9d92
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
0.081779

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918221onnx/unsafe0.081779onnx/nsfw0.041613onnx/nsfl0.040167
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 18:09 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,022, response 724

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)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • solid background
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixelated image of a human face. The face is centered with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead. The left eye appears slightly larger than the right eye. The mouth is closed with a neutral expression. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The lighting creates a gradient effect on the face, with the forehead and nose being the brightest areas. The image is cropped to show only the face and upper neck.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image of a human face with a neutral expression, showing eyes, nose, mouth, and forehead against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • human face pixel art
  • black and white pixelated face
  • neutral expression pixel art
  • low resolution face image
  • monochrome face with solid background
  • pixelated human face neutral
  • face with left eye larger
  • black background pixel art face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution scan or compressed version of a higher-resolution source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human face

Wordwall

  • human face
  • black-and-white
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • closed mouth
  • left eye larger
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution
  • gradient lighting
  • forehead brightest
  • cropped to face
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:37 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 (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
3257
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:49 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/3257.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111128083113id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/3257.gif