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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in close-up view. The figure has short hair and visible ear on left side. Above the forehead, purple blocky text reads 'WOW!'. Background is solid black. Image uses low-resolution dithering with limited grayscale palette (black, white, gray). Composition centers the face horizontally; right eye appears closed or squinted while left eye is open. No clothing or props visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709081751551229423673

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale wow text pixel art
  • wows face closed eye open eye
  • purple block letters human face
  • pixelated black background surprise

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

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

Visible Text

  • WOW!

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • WOW! text
  • purple block letters
  • closed right eye
  • open left eye
  • short hair
  • visible ear
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709081751551229423673
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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/51/517ffbf87f7f33249a0a7a7d56279f4f29ab60f107be541f609aa1ece062136f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
517ffbf87f7f3324
SHA-256
517ffbf87f7f33249a0a7a7d56279f4f29ab60f107be541f609aa1ece062136f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.159785

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,870 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 719

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • amused (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in close-up view. The figure has short hair and visible ear on left side. Above the forehead, purple blocky text reads 'WOW!'. Background is solid black. Image uses low-resolution dithering with limited grayscale palette (black, white, gray). Composition centers the face horizontally; right eye appears closed or squinted while left eye is open. No clothing or props visible.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with 'WOW!' text above the head, set against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709081751551229423673

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • surprised
  • amused

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale wow text pixel art
  • wows face closed eye open eye
  • purple block letters human face
  • pixelated black background surprise

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human face

Visible Text

  • WOW!

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • WOW! text
  • purple block letters
  • closed right eye
  • open left eye
  • short hair
  • visible ear
  • black 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
200709081751551229423673
Archive entry
200709081751551229423673.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709081751551229423673.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709081751551229423673.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016