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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile.

Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated grayscale image depicting the upper body of a figure. The figure has short dark hair styled upward on both sides. Facial features include closed eyes represented by curved lines, a nose formed from horizontal and vertical pixels, and an open mouth with visible teeth in a wide smile. The neck and shoulders are partially visible against a plain white background. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated smile
  • closed eyes dark hair white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • upper body

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710182043531815078605
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/826081bc9fa4db4ce839f7d060bdfceeca36f1dc92c95a48f3704f9ce53fd711.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
826081bc9fa4db4c
SHA-256
826081bc9fa4db4ce839f7d060bdfceeca36f1dc92c95a48f3704f9ce53fd711
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 19:00 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001184

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
1105
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089480

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Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,121 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 572

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered subject
  • plain background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated grayscale image depicting the upper body of a figure. The figure has short dark hair styled upward on both sides. Facial features include closed eyes represented by curved lines, a nose formed from horizontal and vertical pixels, and an open mouth with visible teeth in a wide smile. The neck and shoulders are partially visible against a plain white background. Pixelation creates blocky textures across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a person with dark hair, closed eyes, and an open mouth showing teeth in a wide smile.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated smile
  • closed eyes dark hair white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • upper body
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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
200710182043531815078605
Archive entry
200710182043531815078605.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710182043531815078605.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710182043531815078605.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016