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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • cropped to upper shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person's face with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression with closed eyes, light skin tone, dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders and neck. Visible pixels form facial features including nose, mouth, and forehead. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation. No text or symbols visible. Composition centers the face against dark background. Style is monochrome with limited color palette. Rendering technique appears to be digital compression artifact.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression monochrome
  • cropped upper shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark background
  • upper shoulders
  • cropped
  • blocky pixelation
  • monochrome
  • low resolution
  • digital compression

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
28422
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:19 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7befc3092e75881db785c41875e032ad4c82fcb1a159b7d53ec58a91e6e61d0d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 22:19 UTC
Archive ID
7befc3092e75881d
SHA-256
7befc3092e75881db785c41875e032ad4c82fcb1a159b7d53ec58a91e6e61d0d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
1074
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080111

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919889onnx/unsafe0.080111onnx/nsfl0.043764onnx/nsfw0.036347
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,027, response 675

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • cropped to upper shoulders

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image shows a person's face with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression with closed eyes, light skin tone, dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders and neck. Visible pixels form facial features including nose, mouth, and forehead. Image has low resolution with blocky pixelation. No text or symbols visible. Composition centers the face against dark background. Style is monochrome with limited color palette. Rendering technique appears to be digital compression artifact.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person's face with dark hair, neutral expression, and dark background, cropped to show upper shoulders.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • closed eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression monochrome
  • cropped upper shoulders

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark background
  • upper shoulders
  • cropped
  • blocky pixelation
  • monochrome
  • low resolution
  • digital compression
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:23 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
28422
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:19 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28422.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122094048id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28422.gif