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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed.

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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed.

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyes transition from open to closed

Animation Summary

The right image shows the person with eyes closed while the left image shows the person with eyes open; both images share the same background and clothing.

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • shoulders up
  • consistent background

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background. Left image: person has eyes open, light skin, wearing black top. Right image: person has eyes closed, light skin, wearing black top. Both images show the same person from the shoulders up, with consistent hair color and clothing. The background is a gray brick wall with visible mortar lines. The images are low-resolution with pixelation, suggesting a digital capture or compression artifact.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200910040704221666739730
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person eyes open eyes closed
  • gray brick wall black top
  • pixelated side-by-side
  • eyes closed eyes open transition

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial details

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-supported identity clues

Wordwall

  • gray brick wall
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • black top
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • pixelated
  • shoulders up
  • consistent clothing
  • mortar lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910040704221666739730
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b5b7831c86ee86c43b9954811df81d48fa64a2a0fd2895d57fe6e18cce39f18.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
5b5b7831c86ee86c
SHA-256
5b5b7831c86ee86c43b9954811df81d48fa64a2a0fd2895d57fe6e18cce39f18
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 01:51 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001235

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,169 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 696

Review tags

  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gray brick wall (object, 0.80)
  • eyes transition from open to closed (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • eyes open
  • eyes closed

Animation

  • eyes transition from open to closed

Animation Summary

The right image shows the person with eyes closed while the left image shows the person with eyes open; both images share the same background and clothing.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • light skin

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • shoulders up
  • consistent background

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background. Left image: person has eyes open, light skin, wearing black top. Right image: person has eyes closed, light skin, wearing black top. Both images show the same person from the shoulders up, with consistent hair color and clothing. The background is a gray brick wall with visible mortar lines. The images are low-resolution with pixelation, suggesting a digital capture or compression artifact.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person with short dark hair against a gray brick wall background, one with eyes open and the other with eyes closed.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200910040704221666739730
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person eyes open eyes closed
  • gray brick wall black top
  • pixelated side-by-side
  • eyes closed eyes open transition

Objects

  • gray brick wall

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial details

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel-supported identity clues

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • gray brick wall
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • black top
  • eyes open
  • eyes closed
  • pixelated
  • shoulders up
  • consistent clothing
  • mortar lines
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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
200910040704221666739730
Archive entry
200910040704221666739730.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200910040704221666739730.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910040704221666739730.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016