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Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to jawline
  • smooth gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale rendering of a human skull in profile view, facing right. The skull has closed eyes, visible nasal cavity, and teeth. The background is a smooth gradient transitioning from dark blue at the top to light blue at the bottom. The skull's surface shows pixelation artifacts with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are present. The image is cropped to show the skull from the top of the head to the jawline.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue 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
  • 20080702135213963196306

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • human skull grayscale pixelated
  • closed eyes profile view
  • blue gradient background
  • pixelation artifacts
  • cropped to jawline
  • no text
  • grayscale static image
  • smooth gradient background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

Wordwall

  • human skull
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • blue gradient background
  • no text
  • cropped to jawline
  • smooth gradient
  • pixelation artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080702135213963196306
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a0b8a8ebb45e45d8656c57061291818d0993752b83aff1fde274c0082a076e26.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
a0b8a8ebb45e45d8
SHA-256
a0b8a8ebb45e45d8656c57061291818d0993752b83aff1fde274c0082a076e26
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082826

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,478 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 803

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • somber (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • human skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • profile view
  • cropped to jawline
  • smooth gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale rendering of a human skull in profile view, facing right. The skull has closed eyes, visible nasal cavity, and teeth. The background is a smooth gradient transitioning from dark blue at the top to light blue at the bottom. The skull's surface shows pixelation artifacts with varying shades of gray. No text or additional objects are present. The image is cropped to show the skull from the top of the head to the jawline.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a human skull with closed eyes against a gradient blue 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
  • 20080702135213963196306

Mood

  • somber
  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • human skull grayscale pixelated
  • closed eyes profile view
  • blue gradient background
  • pixelation artifacts
  • cropped to jawline
  • no text
  • grayscale static image
  • smooth gradient background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • static

Subjects

  • human skull

Wordwall

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  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • profile view
  • blue gradient background
  • no text
  • cropped to jawline
  • smooth gradient
  • pixelation artifacts
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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
20080702135213963196306
Archive entry
20080702135213963196306.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080702135213963196306.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080702135213963196306.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016