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Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background.

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Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background.

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • partial hair visible
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale static icon composed of large pixels. It shows the upper portion of a human face including both eyes (one partially obscured), a straight nose, a closed mouth forming a slight smile, and short hair on the left side. The right eye appears squinted or narrowed. The background consists of dark gray to black areas surrounding the central figure. Pixelation is prominent across all elements with no visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200801061752561010891191
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face dark background
  • human face eyes nose mouth hair
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • dark background human face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • human face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • hair
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801061752561010891191
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e2f91b40ce90c14d12631160658eac5709b4e2ec6c85350bc63e709831f3a57.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
6e2f91b40ce90c14
SHA-256
6e2f91b40ce90c14d12631160658eac5709b4e2ec6c85350bc63e709831f3a57
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079379

OpenAI category scores

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Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:28 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,341 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 693

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • partial hair visible
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale static icon composed of large pixels. It shows the upper portion of a human face including both eyes (one partially obscured), a straight nose, a closed mouth forming a slight smile, and short hair on the left side. The right eye appears squinted or narrowed. The background consists of dark gray to black areas surrounding the central figure. Pixelation is prominent across all elements with no visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and partial hair against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200801061752561010891191
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face dark background
  • human face eyes nose mouth hair
  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • dark background human face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • human face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • hair
  • dark 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
200801061752561010891191
Archive entry
200801061752561010891191.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801061752561010891191.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801061752561010891191.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016