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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone.

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone.

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to upper shoulders
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a broad smile. The background is a solid blue with subtle pixelated texture. The person's right ear is partially visible. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No clothing or accessories are visible. The lighting appears even across the face. The image is cropped to show only the upper shoulders and head.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200708281200021614167294

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person blue background
  • pixelated close-up smiling
  • short dark hair blue background
  • light skin smiling person
  • blue background pixelated portrait
  • smiling person visible teeth
  • low resolution smiling portrait
  • pixelated person blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation consistent across entire image

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 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

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  • smiling
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue background
  • visible teeth
  • pixelated
  • right ear partially visible
  • low resolution
  • even lighting
  • upper shoulders visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281200021614167294
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/68/6856ae9a88282109cdf974bd8e03c737ddb626d9afd227120185c6498c00cafe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
6856ae9a88282109
SHA-256
6856ae9a88282109cdf974bd8e03c737ddb626d9afd227120185c6498c00cafe
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
0.094061

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,200 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 713

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • blue
  • light brown
  • dark brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped to upper shoulders
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up portrait of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a broad smile. The background is a solid blue with subtle pixelated texture. The person's right ear is partially visible. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No clothing or accessories are visible. The lighting appears even across the face. The image is cropped to show only the upper shoulders and head.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with short dark hair against a blue background, showing visible teeth and light skin tone.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 200708281200021614167294

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person blue background
  • pixelated close-up smiling
  • short dark hair blue background
  • light skin smiling person
  • blue background pixelated portrait
  • smiling person visible teeth
  • low resolution smiling portrait
  • pixelated person blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation consistent across entire image

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 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • smiling
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • blue background
  • visible teeth
  • pixelated
  • right ear partially visible
  • low resolution
  • even lighting
  • upper shoulders visible
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708281200021614167294
Archive entry
200708281200021614167294.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708281200021614167294.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281200021614167294.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016