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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, showing partial facial features and a smooth background.

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Composition

  • cropped face
  • smooth background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and a smooth background. The visible portion includes the right eye area, nose, mouth, and part of the cheek. The hair is dark and appears to be long, covering the left side of the face. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are present. The composition is cropped to show only the upper face and part of the hair. The lighting creates a contrast between the lighter skin tones and darker hair. The overall style is monochromatic with a grainy texture due to pixelation.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, showing partial facial features and a smooth background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated black-and-white face
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • low-resolution monochromatic portrait
  • cropped face smooth background
  • grainy texture facial features
  • shades of gray pixelation
  • monochromatic blocky appearance
  • lighting contrast skin hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • monochromatic conversion

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  • shades of gray
  • blocky appearance
  • lighting contrast
  • no text
  • no objects
  • upper face
  • part of hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090611190328666773228
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
7bdb9d404ea5bb06
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 21, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
1319
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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August 3, 2026 at 10:29 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
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Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, showing partial facial features and a smooth background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,431 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 784

Review tags

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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped face
  • smooth background

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and a smooth background. The visible portion includes the right eye area, nose, mouth, and part of the cheek. The hair is dark and appears to be long, covering the left side of the face. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are present. The composition is cropped to show only the upper face and part of the hair. The lighting creates a contrast between the lighter skin tones and darker hair. The overall style is monochromatic with a grainy texture due to pixelation.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of a person with dark hair and closed eyes, showing partial facial features and a smooth background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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Subjects

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  • shades of gray
  • blocky appearance
  • lighting contrast
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  • part of hair
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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
20090611190328666773228
Archive entry
20090611190328666773228.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090611190328666773228.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090611190328666773228.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016