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A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light background.

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A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light background.

A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a character's face. Visible elements include dark hair strands, a portion of an eye with a light reflection, and a section of the cheek. The eye area shows a mix of blue, green, and yellow pixels. The background is a light gray tone. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character face
  • dark hair eye close-up
  • blue green yellow pixels
  • low resolution pixel art
  • cropped eye portion
  • light gray background
  • blocky appearance
  • character face close-up

Subjects

  • eye

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • eye portion
  • light background
  • blue green yellow pixels
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808082616875444776
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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/b2/b29bee92c29ddbea3262252e0e6fdbdfe690ac8239f2aba4b4670196951c0407.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
b29bee92c29ddbea
SHA-256
b29bee92c29ddbea3262252e0e6fdbdfe690ac8239f2aba4b4670196951c0407
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099470

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,856 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • eye (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a character's face. Visible elements include dark hair strands, a portion of an eye with a light reflection, and a section of the cheek. The eye area shows a mix of blue, green, and yellow pixels. The background is a light gray tone. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a character's face with dark hair, showing a portion of the eye and cheek area against a light 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character face
  • dark hair eye close-up
  • blue green yellow pixels
  • low resolution pixel art
  • cropped eye portion
  • light gray background
  • blocky appearance
  • character face close-up

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • character face
  • eye
  • hair

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • dark hair
  • eye portion
  • light background
  • blue green yellow pixels
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:49 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070808082616875444776
Archive entry
20070808082616875444776.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808082616875444776.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808082616875444776.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016