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A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • right-side framing

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing a person's upper body and face in profile view. The individual has long straight dark hair extending past the shoulders, visible on the right side of the frame. Skin tone is light brown with pinkish undertones. Mouth is open in a broad smile revealing white teeth. Left hand appears near the lower left corner holding an object partially obscured by pixelation. Background consists of solid black and gray tones suggesting indoor lighting conditions. Image quality shows heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital photography from early 2000s.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person long dark hair
  • pixelated close-up face
  • light-colored top smiling
  • indoor background pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from larger source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • smiling face
  • light-colored top
  • pixelated image
  • indoor background
  • open mouth
  • white teeth
  • left hand visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712281903181439325499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/aff1aed53e3d03ed1567312a9505c4ae9bd482a0e7cc35f0fdd6db74278c8d1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
aff1aed53e3d03ed
SHA-256
aff1aed53e3d03ed1567312a9505c4ae9bd482a0e7cc35f0fdd6db74278c8d1d
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
0.257015

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,891 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 621

Review tags

  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • object held by left hand (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • holding object

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • light brown
  • pinkish
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • right-side framing

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing a person's upper body and face in profile view. The individual has long straight dark hair extending past the shoulders, visible on the right side of the frame. Skin tone is light brown with pinkish undertones. Mouth is open in a broad smile revealing white teeth. Left hand appears near the lower left corner holding an object partially obscured by pixelation. Background consists of solid black and gray tones suggesting indoor lighting conditions. Image quality shows heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital photography from early 2000s.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair smiling, wearing a light-colored top against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person long dark hair
  • pixelated close-up face
  • light-colored top smiling
  • indoor background pixelated image

Objects

  • object held by left hand

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be cropped from larger source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • photographic

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • smiling face
  • light-colored top
  • pixelated image
  • indoor background
  • open mouth
  • white teeth
  • left hand visible
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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
200712281903181439325499
Archive entry
200712281903181439325499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712281903181439325499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712281903181439325499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016