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A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background.

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A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background.

A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution static image. The central subject has medium-length dark brown or black hair partially covering the forehead. Skin tone is light tan. Facial features include closed eyes (likely squinting), a broad smile showing teeth, and visible cheeks. The person wears a solid brown garment on the left shoulder and upper arm. Background consists of dark tones with scattered lighter pixels suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070922114704794185291

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person dark hair brown clothing
  • pixelated image smiling face
  • brown top light skin smile
  • dark background pixelated portrait

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • smiling face
  • brown clothing
  • pixelated image
  • indoor background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070922114704794185291
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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/6f/6f228a0d5339f5592f1c3112a93cad72bbd100fef090db251cb3f00ead3e97ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
6f228a0d5339f559
SHA-256
6f228a0d5339f5592f1c3112a93cad72bbd100fef090db251cb3f00ead3e97ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.352231

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.647769onnx/unsafe0.352231onnx/nsfw0.316665onnx/nsfl0.035566
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A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,369 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 670

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • tan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper body

Dense Caption

The icon is a low-resolution static image. The central subject has medium-length dark brown or black hair partially covering the forehead. Skin tone is light tan. Facial features include closed eyes (likely squinting), a broad smile showing teeth, and visible cheeks. The person wears a solid brown garment on the left shoulder and upper arm. Background consists of dark tones with scattered lighter pixels suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows a person with dark hair and light skin smiling, wearing a brown top against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070922114704794185291

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person dark hair brown clothing
  • pixelated image smiling face
  • brown top light skin smile
  • dark background pixelated portrait

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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • smiling face
  • brown clothing
  • pixelated image
  • indoor 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
20070922114704794185291
Archive entry
20070922114704794185291.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070922114704794185291.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070922114704794185291.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016