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A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck.

A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, highly pixelated close-up showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has long straight brown hair extending past the shoulders. Visible facial features include two dark eyes with eyelashes, a small nose, and a closed-mouth smile revealing teeth. Skin tone appears light pinkish-beige. No clothing or accessories are visible on the neck or chest area. Background elements show blurred patches of teal, brown, and gray tones. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long brown hair person
  • light skin smile
  • pixelated close-up face
  • teal and gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long straight brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed-mouth smile
  • two dark eyes
  • visible teeth
  • teal background patch
  • brown background patches
  • gray background patches

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081228222258906803942
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f0002bb3f57dca56ce79c70f3d487b8804bf040bb87dffffeceb41c0cd40bd4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7f0002bb3f57dca5
SHA-256
7f0002bb3f57dca56ce79c70f3d487b8804bf040bb87dffffeceb41c0cd40bd4
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 14:18 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001172

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,631 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 755

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • teal
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, highly pixelated close-up showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has long straight brown hair extending past the shoulders. Visible facial features include two dark eyes with eyelashes, a small nose, and a closed-mouth smile revealing teeth. Skin tone appears light pinkish-beige. No clothing or accessories are visible on the neck or chest area. Background elements show blurred patches of teal, brown, and gray tones. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with long brown hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and neck.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long brown hair person
  • light skin smile
  • pixelated close-up face
  • teal and gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long straight brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed-mouth smile
  • two dark eyes
  • visible teeth
  • teal background patch
  • brown background patches
  • gray background patches
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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
20081228222258906803942
Archive entry
20081228222258906803942.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081228222258906803942.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081228222258906803942.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016