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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones.

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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones.

Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons, 2…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • extreme close-up
  • cropped to facial region

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in extreme close-up. The image shows two eyes with thick black eyebrows above them, a broad flat nose, and a straight horizontal line for the mouth. Skin tone is light gray; facial features are solid black pixels. The left side of the face has darker shading suggesting shadow or hair. Cropped tightly around the central facial region without visible background elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 06
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 06
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan
  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2
  • buddyicons
  • 06
  • Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • aim
  • album promotion
  • Dave Gahan

Named Entities

  • human face

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • two eyes thick eyebrows broad nose straight mouth
  • pixelated close-up facial features
  • light skin tone dark shadows grayscale

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 06
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 06
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • human face
  • two eyes
  • thick eyebrows
  • broad nose
  • straight mouth
  • light skin tone
  • dark shadows

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons

Source title
06
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters2
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5dcd1364eded4203e279d9f57b0464735bf2a7e6029ff171382a38170fd0b45c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Archive ID
5dcd1364eded4203
SHA-256
5dcd1364eded4203e279d9f57b0464735bf2a7e6029ff171382a38170fd0b45c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083470

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,769 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,033, response 891

Review tags

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

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • extreme close-up
  • cropped to facial region

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in extreme close-up. The image shows two eyes with thick black eyebrows above them, a broad flat nose, and a straight horizontal line for the mouth. Skin tone is light gray; facial features are solid black pixels. The left side of the face has darker shading suggesting shadow or hair. Cropped tightly around the central facial region without visible background elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale close-up of a human face with dark eyebrows, nose, and mouth against light skin tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 06
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 06
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan
  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2
  • buddyicons
  • 06
  • Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • aim
  • album promotion
  • Dave Gahan

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • human face

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • two eyes thick eyebrows broad nose straight mouth
  • pixelated close-up facial features
  • light skin tone dark shadows grayscale

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected; static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • observation category (official): fanarea
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  • observation alt-text (official): 06
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  • observation file-name (official): 06
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • human face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • human face
  • two eyes
  • thick eyebrows
  • broad nose
  • straight mouth
  • light skin tone
  • dark shadows
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons (wayback-dave-gahan-official-buddy-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Type
Wayback direct enumeration of an explicitly named official buddy-icon directory
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters2
Alt
06
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Rights
copyrighted official music promotional imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dave Gahan and Depeche Mode solo-era album imagery distributed as official still and animated buddy icons

Original: http://www.davegahan.com/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters2/06.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001435id_/http://www.davegahan.com:80/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters2/06.gif