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

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

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin tone, and visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and beard stubble against a gray background. 48×48 G…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's head and upper neck. The individual has short brown hair styled upward at the front. Skin tone is light peach. Visible facial features include closed or squinting eyes with dark pupils, a broad nose, a mouth showing teeth in a smile, and stubble on the chin and jawline. Background is solid gray. Lower portion shows partial view of clothing: white collar with black-and-white checkered pattern and red section. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

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

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710201238291370464861

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity head close-up
  • gray background smiling person
  • brown hair white collar checkered red clothing
  • low-resolution facial features

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • broad nose
  • smiling mouth
  • chin stubble
  • white collar
  • checkered pattern
  • red clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710201238291370464861
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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/cf/cf17a898da2d9725b4ea8ab95dda6f2576764e7f0180b0e0d906ed8db49e3014.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
cf17a898da2d9725
SHA-256
cf17a898da2d9725b4ea8ab95dda6f2576764e7f0180b0e0d906ed8db49e3014
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093964

OpenAI category scores

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

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:30 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,460 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 826

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • peach (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • gray
  • brown
  • peach
  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • close-up
  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows a person's head and upper neck. The individual has short brown hair styled upward at the front. Skin tone is light peach. Visible facial features include closed or squinting eyes with dark pupils, a broad nose, a mouth showing teeth in a smile, and stubble on the chin and jawline. Background is solid gray. Lower portion shows partial view of clothing: white collar with black-and-white checkered pattern and red section. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

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

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710201238291370464861

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • happy

Named Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated celebrity head close-up
  • gray background smiling person
  • brown hair white collar checkered red clothing
  • low-resolution facial features

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • gray background
  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • broad nose
  • smiling mouth
  • chin stubble
  • white collar
  • checkered pattern
  • red clothing
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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
200710201238291370464861
Archive entry
200710201238291370464861.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710201238291370464861.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710201238291370464861.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016