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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • partial text above and below

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face showing wide eyes and an open mouth. The face has light skin tone with visible eyebrows, a nose, and lips. The background is dark with a light-colored horizontal band at the top containing partial text. The bottom right corner has partial text. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression appears surprised or shocked. The visible text includes partial characters above and below the face. The overall composition is centered on the face with dark surrounding areas.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806140830361511787351

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shocked face pixelated
  • low-resolution buddy icon
  • partial text above and below
  • dark background pixel art
  • surprised expression pixelated
  • blocky face image
  • text fragments pixelated
  • centered face low-res

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Uncertain Text

  • O
  • H
  • L

Visible Text

  • O
  • H
  • L

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • light skin
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • dark background
  • partial text
  • shocked expression
  • blocky appearance
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806140830361511787351
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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/82/8207c4e32f9dc379cc34980dc6ee578e78b72c3214c608c87f478f2cd2f3f87f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
8207c4e32f9dc379
SHA-256
8207c4e32f9dc379cc34980dc6ee578e78b72c3214c608c87f478f2cd2f3f87f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:26 UTC
Run
1103
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112013

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,246 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 825

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shocked expression

Colors

  • light skin
  • dark
  • light-colored
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • dark background
  • partial text above and below

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person's face showing wide eyes and an open mouth. The face has light skin tone with visible eyebrows, a nose, and lips. The background is dark with a light-colored horizontal band at the top containing partial text. The bottom right corner has partial text. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The person's expression appears surprised or shocked. The visible text includes partial characters above and below the face. The overall composition is centered on the face with dark surrounding areas.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with wide eyes and an open mouth, set against a dark background with partial text above and below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806140830361511787351

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • surprised
  • shocked

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shocked face pixelated
  • low-resolution buddy icon
  • partial text above and below
  • dark background pixel art
  • surprised expression pixelated
  • blocky face image
  • text fragments pixelated
  • centered face low-res

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

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  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Uncertain Text

  • O
  • H
  • L

Visible Text

  • O
  • H
  • L

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • light skin
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • dark background
  • partial text
  • shocked expression
  • blocky appearance
  • low-resolution
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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
200806140830361511787351
Archive entry
200806140830361511787351.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806140830361511787351.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806140830361511787351.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016