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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white background.

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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white background.

A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left portion of image changes between frames
  • right portion remains static

Animation Summary

  • The left portion of the image changes between frames while the right side remains static.

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • partial crop on right side

Dense Caption

Grayscale image showing the upper body and face of a person with shoulder-length dark brown hair. The subject has light skin tone, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows. The right side of the face is partially cropped in some views. Background is solid white. Image appears to be part of an animation sequence where the left portion of the image changes between frames while the right remains static.

Description

  • A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080505212554729904028

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling person
  • long hair white background
  • partial crop animation

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • long hair
  • smiling
  • white background
  • partial crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080505212554729904028
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/834d9a36c4692b8d8bb41e236e7ed12fb6095495945965e12455988a613a1921.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
834d9a36c4692b8d
SHA-256
834d9a36c4692b8d8bb41e236e7ed12fb6095495945965e12455988a613a1921
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

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July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
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1109
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Overall label
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A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:30 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 621

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • left portion of image changes between frames (other, 0.80)
  • right portion remains static (other, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • photorealistic (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Animation

  • left portion of image changes between frames
  • right portion remains static

Animation Summary

  • The left portion of the image changes between frames while the right side remains static.

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • partial crop on right side

Dense Caption

Grayscale image showing the upper body and face of a person with shoulder-length dark brown hair. The subject has light skin tone, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows. The right side of the face is partially cropped in some views. Background is solid white. Image appears to be part of an animation sequence where the left portion of the image changes between frames while the right remains static.

Description

  • A grayscale portrait of a person with long dark hair, smiling slightly against a white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080505212554729904028

Mood

  • neutral
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale smiling person
  • long hair white background
  • partial crop animation

Style

  • photorealistic
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • long hair
  • smiling
  • white background
  • partial crop
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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
20080505212554729904028
Archive entry
20080505212554729904028.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080505212554729904028.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080505212554729904028.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016