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Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • centered subject
  • soft focus background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing partial face and upper body. Visible elements include: long dark brown or black hair extending past shoulders; light skin tone with subtle shading on cheeks and forehead; closed eye with defined eyelid crease; visible earlobe; faint outline of mouth in neutral position; blurred background with pale green, white, and blue tones suggesting indoor setting. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair person
  • light skin neutral expression
  • blurred background pixelated portrait
  • pale green blue tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

  • long dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eye
  • visible ear
  • neutral mouth
  • blurred background
  • pale green tones
  • blue accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805101714461004024249
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b6235daafead8fa90c9733aac9a94954b306dbee2adfeb6ccda5a8ff222c700a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
b6235daafead8fa9
SHA-256
b6235daafead8fa90c9733aac9a94954b306dbee2adfeb6ccda5a8ff222c700a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 14:00 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000112

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 03:23 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010262

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.658147

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,898 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 690

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pale green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • close up portrait (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • light beige
  • pale green
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • cropped to upper body
  • centered subject
  • soft focus background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing partial face and upper body. Visible elements include: long dark brown or black hair extending past shoulders; light skin tone with subtle shading on cheeks and forehead; closed eye with defined eyelid crease; visible earlobe; faint outline of mouth in neutral position; blurred background with pale green, white, and blue tones suggesting indoor setting. Image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital imagery.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with long dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair person
  • light skin neutral expression
  • blurred background pixelated portrait
  • pale green blue tones

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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
  • close-up portrait

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eye
  • visible ear
  • neutral mouth
  • blurred background
  • pale green tones
  • blue accents
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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
200805101714461004024249
Archive entry
200805101714461004024249.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805101714461004024249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805101714461004024249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016