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A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks.

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A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks.

A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static photograph showing the upper body of an individual. The subject has long straight brown hair extending past shoulder level. Visible facial features include closed eyes (suggesting a smile), a rounded nose, full lips forming a slight smile, and light skin tone with subtle shading on cheeks and forehead. The background consists of a blurred interior setting with neutral beige tones and hints of blue in the upper left corner. Pixelation is prominent across all areas due to low resolution.

Description

A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair person
  • smiling pixelated portrait
  • beige background blue accent
  • low resolution photographic image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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

  • long dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • beige background
  • blue accent
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812141541471511841993
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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/9c/9c6d82a701180434490e27a6e057e3f5dee27e988e5892761e3858c33941121d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
9c6d82a701180434
SHA-256
9c6d82a701180434490e27a6e057e3f5dee27e988e5892761e3858c33941121d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 13:54 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000012

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
1230
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000570

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.577328

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,416 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,098, response 641

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • relaxed (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • light pink
  • blue

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • cropped at shoulders

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static photograph showing the upper body of an individual. The subject has long straight brown hair extending past shoulder level. Visible facial features include closed eyes (suggesting a smile), a rounded nose, full lips forming a slight smile, and light skin tone with subtle shading on cheeks and forehead. The background consists of a blurred interior setting with neutral beige tones and hints of blue in the upper left corner. Pixelation is prominent across all areas due to low resolution.

Description

A static pixelated image of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and cheeks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • friendly
  • relaxed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair person
  • smiling pixelated portrait
  • beige background blue accent
  • low resolution photographic image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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

  • photographic
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • beige background
  • blue accent
  • pixelated image
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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
200812141541471511841993
Archive entry
200812141541471511841993.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812141541471511841993.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812141541471511841993.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016