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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • tight crop
  • centered face
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixel art depicts a circular head with smooth gray shading for the face. Dark, thick lines form short, rounded hair framing the top and sides. Closed eyes appear as curved black shapes; one eye is slightly more open than the other. A small nose is visible between the eyes. The mouth shows distinct teeth-like patterns on both upper and lower lips. Background consists of alternating light and dark pixel blocks creating a checkered or striped effect. Image has hard edges with no visible borders, cropped tightly around the face.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007110718281179505599

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face teeth mouth
  • grayscale checkered background
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • monochrome pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • teeth mouth
  • checkered background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007110718281179505599
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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/73/73c0daec90263835c7f34d442b1ebcf9a53da05d05f6eb4d996c4e315ac0b00c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
73c0daec90263835
SHA-256
73c0daec90263835c7f34d442b1ebcf9a53da05d05f6eb4d996c4e315ac0b00c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.222614

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.777386onnx/unsafe0.222614onnx/nsfw0.185220onnx/nsfl0.037393
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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,868 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 636

Review tags

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

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • tight crop
  • centered face
  • no borders

Dense Caption

Monochrome pixel art depicts a circular head with smooth gray shading for the face. Dark, thick lines form short, rounded hair framing the top and sides. Closed eyes appear as curved black shapes; one eye is slightly more open than the other. A small nose is visible between the eyes. The mouth shows distinct teeth-like patterns on both upper and lower lips. Background consists of alternating light and dark pixel blocks creating a checkered or striped effect. Image has hard edges with no visible borders, cropped tightly around the face.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized face with closed eyes, dark hair, and visible mouth details against a patterned background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007110718281179505599

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face teeth mouth
  • grayscale checkered background
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • monochrome pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • stylized

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • teeth mouth
  • checkered 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
2007110718281179505599
Archive entry
2007110718281179505599.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#2007110718281179505599.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007110718281179505599.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016