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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • asymmetrical
  • high pixelation

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 16x16 pixel image. It shows a close-up of a stylized human-like face in grayscale tones. The face has prominent dark hair covering the top portion, two large circular eyes with small pupils, and a wide white mouth area. The right side (viewer's left) features abstract black shapes resembling facial structure or clothing. A solid black shape occupies the lower-right corner. Pixelation is high throughout, with visible dithering patterns in gray tones. No text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black 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): 200907242239082047249928
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200907242239082047249928

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art face
  • stylized face dark hair eyes
  • pixelated 16x16 grayscale icon
  • abstract shapes black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image only

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

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • 16x16
  • stylized face
  • dark hair
  • large eyes
  • white mouth
  • abstract shapes
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907242239082047249928
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6acb85c0ef16fe643f66ada3a3d0daebbe0b75af903a149836c501a0298ae074.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
6acb85c0ef16fe64
SHA-256
6acb85c0ef16fe643f66ada3a3d0daebbe0b75af903a149836c501a0298ae074
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101913

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.898087onnx/unsafe0.101913onnx/nsfw0.051450onnx/nsfl0.050463
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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,848 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 750

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • asymmetrical
  • high pixelation

Dense Caption

The icon is a static 16x16 pixel image. It shows a close-up of a stylized human-like face in grayscale tones. The face has prominent dark hair covering the top portion, two large circular eyes with small pupils, and a wide white mouth area. The right side (viewer's left) features abstract black shapes resembling facial structure or clothing. A solid black shape occupies the lower-right corner. Pixelation is high throughout, with visible dithering patterns in gray tones. No text or symbols are present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with dark hair, large eyes, and a white mouth area against a black 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): 200907242239082047249928
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200907242239082047249928

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art face
  • stylized face dark hair eyes
  • pixelated 16x16 grayscale icon
  • abstract shapes black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image only

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
  • stylized

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • 16x16
  • stylized face
  • dark hair
  • large eyes
  • white mouth
  • abstract shapes
  • black 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
200907242239082047249928
Archive entry
200907242239082047249928.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907242239082047249928.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907242239082047249928.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016