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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair against light background, static image.

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair against light background, static image. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body and head of individual with voluminous dark brown or black curly hair. Hair covers left side of face and extends to shoulder level on right side. Light skin tone visible on forehead, cheeks, nose, mouth area. Eyes appear closed or squinted; eyebrows are thin and light-colored. Mouth is slightly open in neutral expression. Background consists of uniform pale beige pixels with no distinct features. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. No clothing details visible beyond top edge of neck. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair against light background, static image.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • beige background pixel art
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • low resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions based on pixel density

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

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • pale beige background
  • low-resolution pixels
  • partial upper body

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090503095556202852125
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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/c6/c61e6ceba009c9dae15b4f842b710c5dad140f691dee8dd02d839c2b29ac0c3d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
c61e6ceba009c9da
SHA-256
c61e6ceba009c9dae15b4f842b710c5dad140f691dee8dd02d839c2b29ac0c3d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075674

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair against light background, static image.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,562 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 653

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • black
  • brown
  • light gray

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • centered subject
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial upper body and head of individual with voluminous dark brown or black curly hair. Hair covers left side of face and extends to shoulder level on right side. Light skin tone visible on forehead, cheeks, nose, mouth area. Eyes appear closed or squinted; eyebrows are thin and light-colored. Mouth is slightly open in neutral expression. Background consists of uniform pale beige pixels with no distinct features. Image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art. No clothing details visible beyond top edge of neck. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair against light background, static image.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • beige background pixel art
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • low resolution static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions based on pixel density

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

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • static image

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • pale beige background
  • low-resolution pixels
  • partial upper body
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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
20090503095556202852125
Archive entry
20090503095556202852125.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090503095556202852125.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090503095556202852125.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016