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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • no visible props

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark hair beneath a solid black cap worn slightly tilted left. Skin tone is medium brown. Mouth is open in a broad smile revealing white teeth. Eyes are closed or squinted. Background is uniform light gray with no visible texture or objects. Image resolution is low, creating blocky pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black cap smiling person
  • pixelated medium skin smile
  • gray background pixel art

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

  • short dark hair
  • black cap
  • medium skin tone
  • broad smile
  • closed eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709072032191843940189
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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/ba/ba4fea9238debffeb52a20a8d1a63d0cdd6a320a971e6322ccc0bad0d8412d6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
ba4fea9238debffe
SHA-256
ba4fea9238debffeb52a20a8d1a63d0cdd6a320a971e6322ccc0bad0d8412d6e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090977

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:12 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,220 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 585

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • 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

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • no visible props

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing upper torso and head. Subject has short dark hair beneath a solid black cap worn slightly tilted left. Skin tone is medium brown. Mouth is open in a broad smile revealing white teeth. Eyes are closed or squinted. Background is uniform light gray with no visible texture or objects. Image resolution is low, creating blocky pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair wearing a black cap, smiling against a light gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black cap smiling person
  • pixelated medium skin smile
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • cap

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

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • short dark hair
  • black cap
  • medium skin tone
  • broad smile
  • closed eyes
  • light gray background
  • pixelated image
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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
200709072032191843940189
Archive entry
200709072032191843940189.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709072032191843940189.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709072032191843940189.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016