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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up portrait showing a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short dark hair with lighter highlights on the right side (viewer's left). Skin tone appears light brown or tan. Visible facial features include eyes with visible pupils, a nose, lips in a neutral expression, and ears. The background is a pale gradient of white to light purple. Clothing appears dark-colored around the shoulders. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and color distribution.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200712292210151181513786

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity portrait
  • dark hair neutral expression
  • pale background close-up
  • brown skin tone pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • neutral facial expression
  • pale background
  • visible ears
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712292210151181513786
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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/79/799397dd8d115656f9ca34645c737b0197b76fd7edcfaad4e485d7a86b1e296f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
799397dd8d115656
SHA-256
799397dd8d115656f9ca34645c737b0197b76fd7edcfaad4e485d7a86b1e296f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:08 UTC
Run
1062
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076898

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:53 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,592 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 676

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • photorealistic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • purple
  • brown
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • cropped to shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up portrait showing a person's face and upper shoulders. The individual has short dark hair with lighter highlights on the right side (viewer's left). Skin tone appears light brown or tan. Visible facial features include eyes with visible pupils, a nose, lips in a neutral expression, and ears. The background is a pale gradient of white to light purple. Clothing appears dark-colored around the shoulders. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and color distribution.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ears against a pale background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200712292210151181513786

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity portrait
  • dark hair neutral expression
  • pale background close-up
  • brown skin tone pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • photorealistic

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • neutral facial expression
  • pale background
  • visible ears
  • dark clothing
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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
200712292210151181513786
Archive entry
200712292210151181513786.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712292210151181513786.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712292210151181513786.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016