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Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background.

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Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background.

Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial face view
  • central eye placement
  • asymmetrical features

Dense Caption

Grayscale 16x16 pixel icon showing partial face view. Central element is single large circular eye with dark pupil and lighter iris area. Above the eye is a smooth curved line representing an eyebrow. Below the eye are two irregular shapes suggesting nose and mouth. The right side of the image contains a small cross-shaped mark. Background consists of varying shades of gray pixels forming abstract texture. Pixelation creates blocky appearance typical of early digital icons.

Description

  • Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071029180144490646236

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art face icon
  • monochrome eye cross mark
  • stylized 16x16 face
  • pixelated abstract facial features

Objects

  • eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • monochrome
  • grayscale
  • stylized face
  • single eye
  • curved eyebrow
  • abstract features
  • cross mark
  • textured background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071029180144490646236
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6826dc80065706949064f315e9230a0a906cf806cd3b23c789f3ec0be69c0b2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
6826dc8006570694
SHA-256
6826dc80065706949064f315e9230a0a906cf806cd3b23c789f3ec0be69c0b2b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114644

OpenAI category scores

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Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:46 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,812 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 736

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cross mark (object, 0.80)
  • eye (object, 0.80)
  • eyebrow (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • partial face view
  • central eye placement
  • asymmetrical features

Dense Caption

Grayscale 16x16 pixel icon showing partial face view. Central element is single large circular eye with dark pupil and lighter iris area. Above the eye is a smooth curved line representing an eyebrow. Below the eye are two irregular shapes suggesting nose and mouth. The right side of the image contains a small cross-shaped mark. Background consists of varying shades of gray pixels forming abstract texture. Pixelation creates blocky appearance typical of early digital icons.

Description

  • Monochrome pixelated image of a stylized face with large eye, curved eyebrow, and abstract facial features against textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071029180144490646236

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art face icon
  • monochrome eye cross mark
  • stylized 16x16 face
  • pixelated abstract facial features

Objects

  • eye
  • eyebrow
  • cross mark

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • stylized

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • face

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • monochrome
  • grayscale
  • stylized face
  • single eye
  • curved eyebrow
  • abstract features
  • cross mark
  • textured 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
20071029180144490646236
Archive entry
20071029180144490646236.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071029180144490646236.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071029180144490646236.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016