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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static portrait showing the upper face and neck of an individual. The subject has short dark brown or black hair styled with bangs across the forehead. Skin tone appears light beige. Visible facial features include closed eyes, a broad nose, and teeth visible in a wide smile. A small portion of red clothing is seen on the left shoulder. Background consists of indistinct dark pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and expression.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark 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: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person smiling dark hair
  • beige skin red clothing smile
  • dark background pixel art portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

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

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • red clothing
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712231058021078823217
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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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/a5/a5f055ca5fe32c5c51d1f5756ae278d9ab94053f3b669d4ea3052ab80a0a2f01.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
a5f055ca5fe32c5c
SHA-256
a5f055ca5fe32c5c51d1f5756ae278d9ab94053f3b669d4ea3052ab80a0a2f01
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107120

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 613

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • beige
  • red

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static portrait showing the upper face and neck of an individual. The subject has short dark brown or black hair styled with bangs across the forehead. Skin tone appears light beige. Visible facial features include closed eyes, a broad nose, and teeth visible in a wide smile. A small portion of red clothing is seen on the left shoulder. Background consists of indistinct dark pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves overall shape and expression.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible teeth in a wide smile against a dark 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: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person smiling dark hair
  • beige skin red clothing smile
  • dark background pixel art portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

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

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • red clothing
  • 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
200712231058021078823217
Archive entry
200712231058021078823217.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712231058021078823217.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712231058021078823217.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016