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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background.

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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background.

A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon showing a close-up of a human face with closed eyes and subtle facial features; the subject has short dark hair styled under a hood or head covering that frames the face. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering, suggesting low resolution typical of early digital media. Background consists of uniform gray tones without distinct shapes or objects. No text or symbols are present in the visual field.

Description

A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200809281241461992006468
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200809281241461992006468

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated human face
  • closed eyes slight smile dark hair hooded garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or interpolated from lower 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

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • dark hair
  • hooded garment
  • plain background
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809281241461992006468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a9a483d1ef357609f510adae5aa08c82dbbe964a993f3b4d924b6b152030a13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
6a9a483d1ef35760
SHA-256
6a9a483d1ef357609f510adae5aa08c82dbbe964a993f3b4d924b6b152030a13
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001274

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
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1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,142 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 696

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale photography (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon showing a close-up of a human face with closed eyes and subtle facial features; the subject has short dark hair styled under a hood or head covering that frames the face. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering, suggesting low resolution typical of early digital media. Background consists of uniform gray tones without distinct shapes or objects. No text or symbols are present in the visual field.

Description

A grayscale pixelated image of a person with closed eyes and a slight smile, wearing dark hair and a hooded garment against a plain background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200809281241461992006468
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200809281241461992006468

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • serene
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated human face
  • closed eyes slight smile dark hair hooded garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or interpolated from lower 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

  • pixel art
  • grayscale photography

Subjects

  • human face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • dark hair
  • hooded garment
  • plain background
  • low resolution
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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
200809281241461992006468
Archive entry
200809281241461992006468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809281241461992006468.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809281241461992006468.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016