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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered skull
  • vertical background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated grayscale composition featuring a stylized skull with bright white eyes and teeth. The skull is positioned slightly left of center against a dark background with vertical lines. The background includes a lighter vertical strip on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The skull's features are rendered with high contrast between white and dark gray tones. The overall composition is centered on the skull with minimal additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines.

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
  • 200707281807521903767508

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull grayscale
  • white eyes skull
  • vertical lines background
  • low resolution skull
  • grayscale skull pixel art
  • skull with white teeth
  • dark background skull
  • blocky skull image

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

Subjects

  • skull

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  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • stylized skull
  • white eyes
  • white teeth
  • dark background
  • vertical lines
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • high contrast

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707281807521903767508
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8df6ad2b3cd317e0ee729e801ba4313fd4df1b236a5b9f338205a683d11431e7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
8df6ad2b3cd317e0
SHA-256
8df6ad2b3cd317e0ee729e801ba4313fd4df1b236a5b9f338205a683d11431e7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080216

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,508 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 729

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • eerie (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered skull
  • vertical background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated grayscale composition featuring a stylized skull with bright white eyes and teeth. The skull is positioned slightly left of center against a dark background with vertical lines. The background includes a lighter vertical strip on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The skull's features are rendered with high contrast between white and dark gray tones. The overall composition is centered on the skull with minimal additional elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized skull with glowing white eyes and teeth against a dark background with vertical lines.

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
  • 200707281807521903767508

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • eerie
  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated skull grayscale
  • white eyes skull
  • vertical lines background
  • low resolution skull
  • grayscale skull pixel art
  • skull with white teeth
  • dark background skull
  • blocky skull image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • stylized

Subjects

  • skull

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • stylized skull
  • white eyes
  • white teeth
  • dark background
  • vertical lines
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • high contrast
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:36 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707281807521903767508
Archive entry
200707281807521903767508.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707281807521903767508.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707281807521903767508.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016