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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with light-colored hair, dark eyes, and visible facial features including nose and mouth.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with light-colored hair, dark eyes, and visible facial features including nose and mouth.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face with long light-toned hair. The figure has large dark eye areas, a defined nose structure, and a closed-mouth expression. Facial features are rendered in low-resolution blocky pixels with varying shades of gray for depth. Background is solid black. No visible clothing or accessories beyond the head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with light-colored hair, dark eyes, and visible facial features including nose and mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • light hair dark eyes grayscale
  • pixelated head and shoulders black background
  • closed mouth neutral expression grayscale

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation reduces facial detail clarity

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • light hair
  • dark eyes
  • closed mouth
  • solid black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709121244321558181044
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/53/534d1e7a825749e8c37d76f78462532677d45dccbfc4cf6a6eeef912dbfcfb9a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
534d1e7a825749e8
SHA-256
534d1e7a825749e8c37d76f78462532677d45dccbfc4cf6a6eeef912dbfcfb9a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087750

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with light-colored hair, dark eyes, and visible facial features including nose and mouth.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 684

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face with long light-toned hair. The figure has large dark eye areas, a defined nose structure, and a closed-mouth expression. Facial features are rendered in low-resolution blocky pixels with varying shades of gray for depth. Background is solid black. No visible clothing or accessories beyond the head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with light-colored hair, dark eyes, and visible facial features including nose and mouth.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • light hair dark eyes grayscale
  • pixelated head and shoulders black background
  • closed mouth neutral expression grayscale

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation reduces facial detail clarity

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • human face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • light hair
  • dark eyes
  • closed mouth
  • solid black background
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200709121244321558181044
Archive entry
200709121244321558181044.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#200709121244321558181044.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709121244321558181044.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016