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A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

The image is a static, highly pixelated close-up portrait. The subject has light brown or blonde hair extending past the shoulders. Facial features include closed eyes (appearing as horizontal slits), pinkish skin tone with prominent blush on both cheeks, visible teeth in a wide smile, and no discernible clothing or accessories. Background consists of dark, indistinct shapes suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation is uniform across all elements; no text, symbols, or additional objects are present.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person light brown hair
  • rosy cheeks closed eyes smile
  • dark background pixelated portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed

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 close-up
  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • rosy cheeks
  • wide smile
  • visible teeth
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801041020411249929492
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/787d2107135c3348849c38290dfc36c8b39eb663702570f8d62a07448cef6b49.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
787d2107135c3348
SHA-256
787d2107135c3348849c38290dfc36c8b39eb663702570f8d62a07448cef6b49
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
1055
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.152885

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,540 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 662

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (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

  • light brown
  • pink
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

The image is a static, highly pixelated close-up portrait. The subject has light brown or blonde hair extending past the shoulders. Facial features include closed eyes (appearing as horizontal slits), pinkish skin tone with prominent blush on both cheeks, visible teeth in a wide smile, and no discernible clothing or accessories. Background consists of dark, indistinct shapes suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation is uniform across all elements; no text, symbols, or additional objects are present.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible teeth, and rosy cheeks against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person light brown hair
  • rosy cheeks closed eyes smile
  • dark background pixelated portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or heavily compressed

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

  • pixelated close-up
  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • rosy cheeks
  • wide smile
  • visible teeth
  • 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
200801041020411249929492
Archive entry
200801041020411249929492.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801041020411249929492.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801041020411249929492.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016