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Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

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Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short, thick, dark brown or black curly hair covering the top of the head. Skin tone is light with subtle shading on cheeks and jawline. Facial features include closed eyes (or blurred eye area), a defined nose bridge, lips showing slight color variation, and visible beard stubble on chin and jaw. The person wears a dark-colored shirt collar with a small red detail near the neck. Background consists of scattered pixel clusters in white, light gray, pink, and faint blue tones. Image is static with no motion or animation.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20080622113644267640826
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • beard stubble red collar detail
  • white background pink accents
  • static pixel art close-up

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

  • pixelated face
  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • beard stubble
  • red collar detail
  • white background
  • pink accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080622113644267640826
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/7668f7c7b366a6c7b757e8dba72f9952b723abff89da40195fc39769f83dca59.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
7668f7c7b366a6c7
SHA-256
7668f7c7b366a6c7b757e8dba72f9952b723abff89da40195fc39769f83dca59
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1045
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077724

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,438 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 760

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • brown
  • light gray
  • white
  • pink
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short, thick, dark brown or black curly hair covering the top of the head. Skin tone is light with subtle shading on cheeks and jawline. Facial features include closed eyes (or blurred eye area), a defined nose bridge, lips showing slight color variation, and visible beard stubble on chin and jaw. The person wears a dark-colored shirt collar with a small red detail near the neck. Background consists of scattered pixel clusters in white, light gray, pink, and faint blue tones. Image is static with no motion or animation.

Description

Pixelated image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 20080622113644267640826
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair light skin
  • beard stubble red collar detail
  • white background pink accents
  • static pixel art close-up

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
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated face
  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • beard stubble
  • red collar detail
  • white background
  • pink accents
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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
20080622113644267640826
Archive entry
20080622113644267640826.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080622113644267640826.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080622113644267640826.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016