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Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • upward angle

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background. The face is angled slightly upward with visible eyebrows, eyelashes, and lips. The right eye (viewer's left) has a lighter iris, while the left eye (viewer's right) has a darker iris. The nose is centered with visible nostrils. The mouth is closed with a slight upward curve. The background is a solid muted gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708021022581856468045

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • light skin tone muted gray background
  • eyes nose mouth pixelated
  • upward angle face close-up
  • blocky appearance muted gray background
  • closed mouth slight upward curve
  • neutral mood pixelated face
  • low-resolution face close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance

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

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  • light skin tone
  • muted gray background
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • upward angle
  • eyebrows
  • eyelashes
  • nostrils
  • closed mouth
  • slight upward curve
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708021022581856468045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9af4a38b9d35d7ef643c74f0033ad9485351d56baa313fb240487b5f3216526c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
9af4a38b9d35d7ef
SHA-256
9af4a38b9d35d7ef643c74f0033ad9485351d56baa313fb240487b5f3216526c
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 17:46 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
1191
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,164 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 867

Review tags

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  • muted gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • muted gray
  • brown
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered face
  • upward angle

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray background. The face is angled slightly upward with visible eyebrows, eyelashes, and lips. The right eye (viewer's left) has a lighter iris, while the left eye (viewer's right) has a darker iris. The nose is centered with visible nostrils. The mouth is closed with a slight upward curve. The background is a solid muted gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against a muted gray 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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708021022581856468045

Mood

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Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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Subjects

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  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
Version
v5
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708021022581856468045
Archive entry
200708021022581856468045.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708021022581856468045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708021022581856468045.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016