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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct background.

Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • profile view
  • shoulders-up framing
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure from the shoulders up. The figure has long dark brown or black hair extending past the shoulders and wears a light gray or off-white top. The face is partially visible in profile view with a slight smile; eyes are closed or squinted, nose and mouth details present but blurred by low resolution. Background contains indistinct shapes in muted tones of blue, green, purple, and beige. Image has heavy pixelation typical of early digital compression artifacts.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct 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: 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
  • 20080121165925444160569
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair light top pixelated image
  • profile view smiling closed eyes muted background
  • dark brown black hair light gray top
  • pixelated profile smile indistinct background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality source file

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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-colored top
  • slight smile
  • closed eyes
  • pixelated image
  • indistinct background
  • profile view
  • muted color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080121165925444160569
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/af/afc85cdc13e789fdb3585bc7c48dfd75ef33fe1fa451682acb03486b29af306d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
afc85cdc13e789fd
SHA-256
afc85cdc13e789fdb3585bc7c48dfd75ef33fe1fa451682acb03486b29af306d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.141592

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,212 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 750

Review tags

  • looking upward (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • looking upward

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • light gray
  • beige
  • blue
  • green
  • purple

Composition

  • profile view
  • shoulders-up framing
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a figure from the shoulders up. The figure has long dark brown or black hair extending past the shoulders and wears a light gray or off-white top. The face is partially visible in profile view with a slight smile; eyes are closed or squinted, nose and mouth details present but blurred by low resolution. Background contains indistinct shapes in muted tones of blue, green, purple, and beige. Image has heavy pixelation typical of early digital compression artifacts.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with long dark hair wearing a light-colored top, smiling slightly against an indistinct 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: 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
  • 20080121165925444160569
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person long dark hair light top pixelated image
  • profile view smiling closed eyes muted background
  • dark brown black hair light gray top
  • pixelated profile smile indistinct background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality source file

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • digital compression artifacts

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • slight smile
  • closed eyes
  • pixelated image
  • indistinct background
  • profile view
  • muted color palette
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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
20080121165925444160569
Archive entry
20080121165925444160569.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080121165925444160569.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080121165925444160569.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016