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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper face

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static icon showing the upper portion of a human face. Visible features include two dark eye areas, a defined nose structure, a closed mouth with lips in a neutral position, and light brown or tan skin tone. The right side of the face (viewer's left) shows partial hair strands in shades of brown. Background elements are indistinct but appear to be lighter tones suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation is severe across all areas, obscuring fine details like facial texture or specific clothing.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200709041620541434897993

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • light brown skin neutral expression
  • brown hair strands blurred background

Preprocessing Notes

  • severe pixelation obscures fine details

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face close-up
  • light brown skin
  • dark eyes
  • closed mouth
  • brown hair strands
  • blurred background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709041620541434897993
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/95/955a9afc02e1af8d2bf88f80e74e0fbbae36f351e004e94c70f1d38f772eb799.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
955a9afc02e1af8d
SHA-256
955a9afc02e1af8d2bf88f80e74e0fbbae36f351e004e94c70f1d38f772eb799
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000086

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 12:54 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001157

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001157falseself-harm0.000494falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000054falseviolence/graphic0.000018falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.768178

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:29 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,947 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 721

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • tan
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • cropped to upper face

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static icon showing the upper portion of a human face. Visible features include two dark eye areas, a defined nose structure, a closed mouth with lips in a neutral position, and light brown or tan skin tone. The right side of the face (viewer's left) shows partial hair strands in shades of brown. Background elements are indistinct but appear to be lighter tones suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation is severe across all areas, obscuring fine details like facial texture or specific clothing.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with visible eyes, nose, mouth, and light brown hair against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200709041620541434897993

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • light brown skin neutral expression
  • brown hair strands blurred background

Preprocessing Notes

  • severe pixelation obscures fine details

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

Subjects

  • human face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face close-up
  • light brown skin
  • dark eyes
  • closed mouth
  • brown hair strands
  • blurred background
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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
200709041620541434897993
Archive entry
200709041620541434897993.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709041620541434897993.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709041620541434897993.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016