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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central face
  • partial side profiles on left and right edges

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring the central face of a person with light skin tone. The face has visible eyes with brown irises, a straight nose, and closed lips in a neutral expression. Dark hair appears above the forehead and on the sides. Two partial side profiles are visible: one on the left showing part of an ear and cheek, another on the right showing part of an eye and cheek. The background is solid dark color. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering typical of early digital avatars.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair
  • neutral expression closed lips
  • partial side profiles left right
  • low resolution static icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • brown eyes
  • closed lips
  • neutral expression
  • partial side profiles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901181551071986392137
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110928084346284028221
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/65144da7cce685a94ba893d284bebd64768c215cc9a905d838de295c8f65fbee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
65144da7cce685a9
SHA-256
65144da7cce685a94ba893d284bebd64768c215cc9a905d838de295c8f65fbee
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079762

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920238onnx/unsafe0.079762onnx/nsfw0.043416onnx/nsfl0.036345
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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,932 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,133, response 677

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • beige
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • central face
  • partial side profiles on left and right edges

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring the central face of a person with light skin tone. The face has visible eyes with brown irises, a straight nose, and closed lips in a neutral expression. Dark hair appears above the forehead and on the sides. Two partial side profiles are visible: one on the left showing part of an ear and cheek, another on the right showing part of an eye and cheek. The background is solid dark color. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering typical of early digital avatars.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with dark hair, showing eyes, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair
  • neutral expression closed lips
  • partial side profiles left right
  • low resolution static icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • brown eyes
  • closed lips
  • neutral expression
  • partial side profiles
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Full source records (2)

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
200901181551071986392137
Archive entry
200901181551071986392137.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901181551071986392137.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901181551071986392137.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20110928084346284028221
Archive entry
20110928084346284028221.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#20110928084346284028221.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110928084346284028221.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016