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A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • head and neck
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper neck. The person has light brown hair tied back in a low ponytail. They wear a dark gray cap with white text; the visible text includes 'X' and '2' in a stylized font. The person's eyes are partially closed in a smile, showing teeth. The background is a plain light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital icons.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 28977
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair ponytail cap
  • smiling person gray background
  • X 2 cap text
  • pixelated close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visible Text

  • X
  • 2

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • low ponytail
  • dark gray cap
  • white text
  • X
  • 2
  • smiling
  • eyes closed
  • light gray background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
28977
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:23 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a928567eef31d7956b5cca87ac6b98ad07825ff6a92483cd648d46fc8a26b3d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Archive ID
a928567eef31d795
SHA-256
a928567eef31d7956b5cca87ac6b98ad07825ff6a92483cd648d46fc8a26b3d9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 23:10 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000581

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000581falseself-harm0.000464falsesexual0.000064falseviolence/graphic0.000009falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.161337

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.838663onnx/unsafe0.161337onnx/nsfw0.125961onnx/nsfl0.035377
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 749

Review tags

  • eyes closed (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • eyes closed

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • head and neck
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's head and upper neck. The person has light brown hair tied back in a low ponytail. They wear a dark gray cap with white text; the visible text includes 'X' and '2' in a stylized font. The person's eyes are partially closed in a smile, showing teeth. The background is a plain light gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital icons.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair tied back, wearing a dark cap with white text, smiling with eyes partially closed against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-info
  • 28977
  • buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair ponytail cap
  • smiling person gray background
  • X 2 cap text
  • pixelated close-up

Objects

  • cap

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • X
  • 2

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • low ponytail
  • dark gray cap
  • white text
  • X
  • 2
  • smiling
  • eyes closed
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
28977
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28977.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20101027090158id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/28977.gif