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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • profile view
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in profile view. The subject has short dark hair with volume on top, visible right ear, and neck extending below the chin. Facial features include closed eyes (appearing as solid black shapes), a defined nose bridge, and lips forming a neutral expression. The background is light beige with subtle gradient shading. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements; no clothing or accessories are visible.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation alt-text (official): 02
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • dark hair profile portrait
  • beige background neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 02
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 02
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face
  • hair
  • ear
  • neck

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • dark hair styled upward
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • light beige background
  • visible right ear
  • neck below chin

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons

Source title
02
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters / still
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c9784e7fc8942a32c56df79807df6c518e39e7496bf4671a7cf65f859b7e6b7e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Archive ID
c9784e7fc8942a32
SHA-256
c9784e7fc8942a32c56df79807df6c518e39e7496bf4671a7cf65f859b7e6b7e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068137

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:36 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 736

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • portrait (style, 0.80)
  • ear (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)
  • neck (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • beige

Composition

  • head and shoulders crop
  • profile view
  • centered subject

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a human face in profile view. The subject has short dark hair with volume on top, visible right ear, and neck extending below the chin. Facial features include closed eyes (appearing as solid black shapes), a defined nose bridge, and lips forming a neutral expression. The background is light beige with subtle gradient shading. Pixelation creates blocky texture across all elements; no clothing or accessories are visible.

Description

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with dark hair styled upward, neutral expression, visible ear and neck, cropped to head and shoulders.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation alt-text (official): 02
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art human face
  • dark hair profile portrait
  • beige background neutral expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters
  • observation category (official): still
  • observation alt-text (official): 02
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 02
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • portrait

Subjects

  • human face
  • hair
  • ear
  • neck

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face
  • hair
  • ear
  • neck

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • dark hair styled upward
  • closed eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • light beige background
  • visible right ear
  • neck below chin
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Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons (wayback-dave-gahan-official-buddy-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Type
Wayback direct enumeration of an explicitly named official buddy-icon directory
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters / still
Alt
02
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Rights
copyrighted official music promotional imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dave Gahan and Depeche Mode solo-era album imagery distributed as official still and animated buddy icons

Original: http://www.davegahan.com/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters/still/02.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001758id_/http://www.davegahan.com:80/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters/still/02.gif