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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up crop
  • profile orientation
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Close-up pixelated image shows a person's face in profile view. The individual has light brown skin tone, closed eyes with visible eyelashes, and a broad smile revealing teeth. A small portion of the right ear is visible on the left side of the frame. Dark hair appears behind the head against a dark background. The image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070909170956906650660

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity profile smile
  • low-resolution instant messaging face
  • 2007 buddy icon close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from original low 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: celebrities

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • profile view
  • light brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • broad smile
  • visible ear
  • dark hair
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909170956906650660
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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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/a0/a0bd3fcb5e0de553ee98d3abf7decfa5c5ea98384b17ebe2afa6b8958c7ad349.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
a0bd3fcb5e0de553
SHA-256
a0bd3fcb5e0de553ee98d3abf7decfa5c5ea98384b17ebe2afa6b8958c7ad349
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.394484

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 636

Review tags

  • closing eyes (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • content (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • early 2000s instant messaging aesthetic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated digital art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • closing eyes

Colors

  • light brown
  • pink
  • dark gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up crop
  • profile orientation
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Close-up pixelated image shows a person's face in profile view. The individual has light brown skin tone, closed eyes with visible eyelashes, and a broad smile revealing teeth. A small portion of the right ear is visible on the left side of the frame. Dark hair appears behind the head against a dark background. The image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light brown hair, visible ear, and dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070909170956906650660

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007

Mood

  • happy
  • content

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity profile smile
  • low-resolution instant messaging face
  • 2007 buddy icon close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from original low 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: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated digital art
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s instant messaging aesthetic

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • profile view
  • light brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • broad smile
  • visible ear
  • dark hair
  • dark 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
20070909170956906650660
Archive entry
20070909170956906650660.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070909170956906650660.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909170956906650660.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016