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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image showing a close-up of a human face. The subject has short dark hair, visible eyebrows, two distinct eyes with black pupils, a defined nose bridge, lips in a closed position, and light facial hair on the chin and jawline. The background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements. No text or symbols are present.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Metadata Supported By Image

  • observation category (official): still
  • observation file-name (official): 05
  • observation alt-text (official): 05

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated human face
  • black background portrait
  • neutral expression beard stubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from lower resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 05
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 05
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • beard stubble
  • black background
  • blocky texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons

Source title
05
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters / still
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/762791ddb61a84d8e7d0f4f7a7c0698fb6924c4bc506a8c1264a3e44b55802ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Archive ID
762791ddb61a84d8
SHA-256
762791ddb61a84d8e7d0f4f7a7c0698fb6924c4bc506a8c1264a3e44b55802ca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1043
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084920

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,402 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,030, response 721

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated grayscale image showing a close-up of a human face. The subject has short dark hair, visible eyebrows, two distinct eyes with black pupils, a defined nose bridge, lips in a closed position, and light facial hair on the chin and jawline. The background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements. No text or symbols are present.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short dark hair, neutral expression, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Metadata Supported By Image

  • observation category (official): still
  • observation file-name (official): 05
  • observation alt-text (official): 05

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated human face
  • black background portrait
  • neutral expression beard stubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from lower resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 05
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 05
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • human face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • beard stubble
  • black background
  • blocky texture
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons (wayback-dave-gahan-official-buddy-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Type
Wayback direct enumeration of an explicitly named official buddy-icon directory
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters / still
Alt
05
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Rights
copyrighted official music promotional imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dave Gahan and Depeche Mode solo-era album imagery distributed as official still and animated buddy icons

Original: http://www.davegahan.com/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters/still/05.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20050502115556id_/http://www.davegahan.com:80/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters/still/05.gif