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four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions

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four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions

four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • mouth opens wider

Animation Summary

  • The person's head turns from left to right across frames, and the mouth opens wider in the rightmost frame.

Dense Caption

Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. Top-right: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open wider, head turned right. Bottom-left: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. Bottom-right: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. All images show a light-colored background. The person has fair skin and visible teeth. The images are low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902161040451175181484

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair red lips pixelated
  • person head turned left mouth open
  • pixelated images
  • fair skin visible teeth mouth open

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout is part of the asset, not a contact sheet
  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated images

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • red lips
  • fair skin
  • visible teeth
  • mouth open
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
  • pixelated
  • light-colored background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902161040451175181484
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bb1d11d50ede2b7dffbc5e232ade9a0d23ae5788dbd3619f1827355a118705a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
bb1d11d50ede2b7d
SHA-256
bb1d11d50ede2b7dffbc5e232ade9a0d23ae5788dbd3619f1827355a118705a3
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 08:14 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001191

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.143792

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,733 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 803

Review tags

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  • head turned right (action, 0.80)
  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • fair skin (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • expressive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open
  • head turned left
  • head turned right

Animation

  • head turns left to right
  • mouth opens wider

Animation Summary

  • The person's head turns from left to right across frames, and the mouth opens wider in the rightmost frame.

Colors

  • light brown
  • red
  • fair skin
  • light-colored

Dense Caption

Four pixelated images arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. Top-right: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open wider, head turned right. Bottom-left: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. Bottom-right: person with light brown hair, red lips, mouth open, head turned left. All images show a light-colored background. The person has fair skin and visible teeth. The images are low-resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200902161040451175181484

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair red lips pixelated
  • person head turned left mouth open
  • pixelated images
  • fair skin visible teeth mouth open

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout is part of the asset, not a contact sheet
  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images showing a person with light brown hair and red lips in varying facial expressions and head positions.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated images

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • red lips
  • fair skin
  • visible teeth
  • mouth open
  • head turned left
  • head turned right
  • pixelated
  • light-colored background
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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
200902161040451175181484
Archive entry
200902161040451175181484.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902161040451175181484.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902161040451175181484.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016