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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark brown hair styled with bangs covering forehead. Light skin tone; eyes appear greenish-brown. Mouth open in partial smile revealing white teeth. Wearing white garment with collar visible at bottom edge. Background is indistinct muted tones of gray and brown. Image resolution low, pixelation prominent across all areas.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair person
  • greenish-brown eyes smile
  • white garment pixelated image
  • muted background close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • greenish-brown eyes
  • white teeth
  • partial smile
  • white garment
  • muted background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070906181356983656854
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/65/65c78796a6a6ef64c5d2935c162241cd54cf4f27f3bd330eabad9a1dc11de41a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
65c78796a6a6ef64
SHA-256
65c78796a6a6ef64c5d2935c162241cd54cf4f27f3bd330eabad9a1dc11de41a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088483

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,918 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 634

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light skin tone

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark brown hair styled with bangs covering forehead. Light skin tone; eyes appear greenish-brown. Mouth open in partial smile revealing white teeth. Wearing white garment with collar visible at bottom edge. Background is indistinct muted tones of gray and brown. Image resolution low, pixelation prominent across all areas.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark brown hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a neutral expression against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark brown hair person
  • greenish-brown eyes smile
  • white garment pixelated image
  • muted background close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • greenish-brown eyes
  • white teeth
  • partial smile
  • white garment
  • muted background
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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
20070906181356983656854
Archive entry
20070906181356983656854.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070906181356983656854.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070906181356983656854.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016