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Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background.

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Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background.

Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • cropped frame

Dense Caption

Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear. The face is centered in the frame with a dark background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are visible. The person's hair is partially visible on the left side of the frame. The image appears to be cropped to show only the upper body and head.

Description

  • Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081111193822184665616

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • dark background pixel art
  • low-resolution grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • shades of gray
  • cropped frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081111193822184665616
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/62cd5d48e16ca33f48c7d1ecb50aa575c16ecbe5dc2b20c47ff8560e030c27ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
62cd5d48e16ca33f
SHA-256
62cd5d48e16ca33f48c7d1ecb50aa575c16ecbe5dc2b20c47ff8560e030c27ca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081306

OpenAI category scores

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Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 642

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • cropped frame

Dense Caption

Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear. The face is centered in the frame with a dark background. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are visible. The person's hair is partially visible on the left side of the frame. The image appears to be cropped to show only the upper body and head.

Description

  • Static grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20081111193822184665616

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • dark background pixel art
  • low-resolution grayscale portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • shades of gray
  • cropped frame
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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
20081111193822184665616
Archive entry
20081111193822184665616.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081111193822184665616.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081111193822184665616.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016