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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • left-side view

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face from left side; visible elements include right eye (black pupil, white reflection), left eye (white reflection), nose, smiling mouth with pink lips showing teeth, right ear, dark hair strands on forehead. Skin tone is light brown. Background is solid black. Lower portion of green garment appears at bottom-right corner. Image has low resolution and blocky pixelation typical of early digital images.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background.

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

  • person smiling pixelated
  • green garment black background
  • right eye left eye teeth
  • light skin tone dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original based on pixelation pattern

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

  • right eye
  • left eye
  • nose
  • smiling mouth
  • pink lips
  • teeth
  • right ear
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • green garment
  • black background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080915144735701867054
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/ccd611bbd32589559aca798626a42bb9375e2883f82d5122ff95658e3759241a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
ccd611bbd3258955
SHA-256
ccd611bbd32589559aca798626a42bb9375e2883f82d5122ff95658e3759241a
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 11:06 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000067

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 02:07 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001169

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001169falsesexual0.000710falseself-harm0.000478falseself-harm/intent0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000020falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.424269

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,988 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 657

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • ear (object, 0.80)
  • garment (object, 0.80)
  • hair (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • pink
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • partial face
  • left-side view

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial face from left side; visible elements include right eye (black pupil, white reflection), left eye (white reflection), nose, smiling mouth with pink lips showing teeth, right ear, dark hair strands on forehead. Skin tone is light brown. Background is solid black. Lower portion of green garment appears at bottom-right corner. Image has low resolution and blocky pixelation typical of early digital images.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and ear against black background.

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

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling pixelated
  • green garment black background
  • right eye left eye teeth
  • light skin tone dark hair

Objects

  • ear
  • hair
  • garment

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original based on pixelation pattern

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

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • right eye
  • left eye
  • nose
  • smiling mouth
  • pink lips
  • teeth
  • right ear
  • dark hair
  • light skin tone
  • green garment
  • black background
  • pixelated
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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
20080915144735701867054
Archive entry
20080915144735701867054.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080915144735701867054.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080915144735701867054.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016