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A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, smiling against a light background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, smiling against a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso focus

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing upper torso and head of a person. Brown hair covers forehead in straight-cut style. White short-sleeve shirt visible at shoulders. Light-colored background with faint gray and blue tones. Facial expression shows closed eyes and open mouth revealing teeth. No text or symbols present. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, smiling against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt smiling
  • pixelated person close-up
  • white shirt brown hair closed eyes
  • smiling pixelated upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial features and background details

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

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • closed eyes
  • smiling
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • upper torso
  • straight-cut hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071007114156442044878
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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/c9/c9325f1bfe5d30cd3bafdc59bc26c631b05e8f953fc4ace7fc49207f8c7eb7d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
c9325f1bfe5d30cd
SHA-256
c9325f1bfe5d30cd3bafdc59bc26c631b05e8f953fc4ace7fc49207f8c7eb7d5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:13 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085679

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, smiling against a light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:04 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,178 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 606

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • close-up
  • upper torso focus

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image showing upper torso and head of a person. Brown hair covers forehead in straight-cut style. White short-sleeve shirt visible at shoulders. Light-colored background with faint gray and blue tones. Facial expression shows closed eyes and open mouth revealing teeth. No text or symbols present. Image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with brown hair wearing a white shirt, smiling against a light background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair white shirt smiling
  • pixelated person close-up
  • white shirt brown hair closed eyes
  • smiling pixelated upper torso

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial features and background details

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
  • static

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • white shirt
  • closed eyes
  • smiling
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • upper torso
  • straight-cut hair
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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
20071007114156442044878
Archive entry
20071007114156442044878.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071007114156442044878.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071007114156442044878.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016