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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Composition

  • profile view
  • tight crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static grayscale image with pixelated rendering. Shows a close-up profile view of a person's right side, including the eye with dark eyeliner, nose, mouth, and chin. The background is solid black. The image is cropped tightly around the face, with no visible clothing or accessories. The pixelation suggests low-resolution digital art or compression artifacts. The subject's skin tone is light gray, with darker gray for facial features. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 04
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 04
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile face
  • pixelated right side face
  • black background grayscale face
  • grayscale face no text
  • pixelated face solid background
  • profile view grayscale face
  • grayscale face tight crop
  • right side face pixelated

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • right side face
  • solid black background
  • no text
  • low resolution
  • facial features visible
  • tight crop
  • no clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons

Source title
04
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters / still
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/67ab7e2e5fffd554ebe06da037d2489286df0d6866672125c0c90bcf51046b95.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Archive ID
67ab7e2e5fffd554
SHA-256
67ab7e2e5fffd554ebe06da037d2489286df0d6866672125c0c90bcf51046b95
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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
0.079959

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Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,832 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,028, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • tight crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Static grayscale image with pixelated rendering. Shows a close-up profile view of a person's right side, including the eye with dark eyeliner, nose, mouth, and chin. The background is solid black. The image is cropped tightly around the face, with no visible clothing or accessories. The pixelation suggests low-resolution digital art or compression artifacts. The subject's skin tone is light gray, with darker gray for facial features. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

Pixelated grayscale close-up of a person's face in profile, showing the right side of the head with visible eye, nose, and mouth against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 04
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 04
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale profile face
  • pixelated right side face
  • black background grayscale face
  • grayscale face no text
  • pixelated face solid background
  • profile view grayscale face
  • grayscale face tight crop
  • right side face pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • right side face
  • solid black background
  • no text
  • low resolution
  • facial features visible
  • tight crop
  • no clothing
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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 / papermonsters / still
Alt
04
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/papermonsters/still/04.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001827id_/http://www.davegahan.com:80/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters/still/04.gif