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A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression. The person has light brown eyes, visible teeth, and is wearing a light-colored top. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including dark blue, white, and light brown. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling short brown hair
  • pixelated close-up light skin
  • blurred background low-resolution
  • light-colored top smiling expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • smiling expression
  • light-colored top
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
7642
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:06 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ce/ce9a51a4688dd671cf06fae6b45e9857d607f99d82e76300826d80bbd837a53c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Archive ID
ce9a51a4688dd671
SHA-256
ce9a51a4688dd671cf06fae6b45e9857d607f99d82e76300826d80bbd837a53c
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 08:59 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010106

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010106falseself-harm0.000509falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000113falseviolence/graphic0.000031falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138039

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 20:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,621 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 680

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • light brown
  • light skin
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression. The person has light brown eyes, visible teeth, and is wearing a light-colored top. The background is blurred with indistinct shapes and colors including dark blue, white, and light brown. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible in the image.

Description

A pixelated close-up of a person with short brown hair, light skin, and a smiling expression, wearing a light-colored top against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person smiling short brown hair
  • pixelated close-up light skin
  • blurred background low-resolution
  • light-colored top smiling expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or enlarged from a smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated close-up
  • short brown hair
  • light skin
  • smiling expression
  • light-colored top
  • blurred background
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 05:13 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
7642
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/7642.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111203053541id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/7642.gif