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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • cropped to head and ear

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing the right side of a person's head in profile view. The subject has short dark brown or black hair styled upward at the front. Visible features include an ear with pinkish tones on the lobe, closed eyes with visible eyelashes, and light skin tone. A small blue dot appears near the cheek area. The background is neutral gray with no distinct objects or patterns. Image quality shows heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital assets from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803301215401764535595
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803301215401764535595

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile face
  • short dark hair blue dot
  • closed eyes neutral background
  • low resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • light skin tone
  • blue dot on cheek
  • neutral background
  • ear visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803301215401764535595
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/895be90bf37dd186cf718ca02ce1a05cdb1b96683a63bc8a570977279061ecc2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
895be90bf37dd186
SHA-256
895be90bf37dd186cf718ca02ce1a05cdb1b96683a63bc8a570977279061ecc2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074081

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,718 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 720

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • pink
  • blue
  • beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • cropped to head and ear

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing the right side of a person's head in profile view. The subject has short dark brown or black hair styled upward at the front. Visible features include an ear with pinkish tones on the lobe, closed eyes with visible eyelashes, and light skin tone. A small blue dot appears near the cheek area. The background is neutral gray with no distinct objects or patterns. Image quality shows heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital assets from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, visible ear, and light skin tone against a neutral background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200803301215401764535595
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803301215401764535595

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile face
  • short dark hair blue dot
  • closed eyes neutral background
  • low resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original low resolution

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
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • short dark hair
  • closed eyes
  • light skin tone
  • blue dot on cheek
  • neutral background
  • ear visible
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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
200803301215401764535595
Archive entry
200803301215401764535595.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803301215401764535595.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803301215401764535595.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016