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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • centered face
  • shoulders-up framing
  • dark background with colored patches

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a person's face from the shoulders up. The individual has short black hair styled in a straight cut, light brown eyes, a small nose, and lips forming a slight smile. Skin tone is light with subtle pinkish cheeks. Background consists of dark pixels with faint blue and yellow patches on the left and right edges. Image resolution appears low with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901261806082138115306
  • 20090126180715654804349

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person short black hair light skin
  • pixelated face dark background
  • light brown eyes slight smile pink cheeks
  • low-resolution portrait shoulders-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial detail clarity

Wordwall

  • short black hair
  • light skin tone
  • pinkish cheek tones
  • slight smile expression
  • dark background
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • shoulders-up composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901261806082138115306
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090126180715654804349
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cf3b02db8778ea5b03a88b0a8686f06b08810f78f24971899d9780d353e39bbe.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
cf3b02db8778ea5b
SHA-256
cf3b02db8778ea5b03a88b0a8686f06b08810f78f24971899d9780d353e39bbe
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000031

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 17:46 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001194

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001194falseself-harm0.000463falsesexual0.000095falseviolence/graphic0.000020falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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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
0.341968

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,787 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 608

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • subtly positive (mood, 0.80)
  • close up portrait (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • light brown
  • pink
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • shoulders-up framing
  • dark background with colored patches

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a person's face from the shoulders up. The individual has short black hair styled in a straight cut, light brown eyes, a small nose, and lips forming a slight smile. Skin tone is light with subtle pinkish cheeks. Background consists of dark pixels with faint blue and yellow patches on the left and right edges. Image resolution appears low with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols are present in the image.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with short dark hair, light skin, and visible facial features against a dark 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: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901261806082138115306
  • 20090126180715654804349

Mood

  • neutral
  • subtly positive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person short black hair light skin
  • pixelated face dark background
  • light brown eyes slight smile pink cheeks
  • low-resolution portrait shoulders-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects facial detail clarity

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • close-up portrait

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • short black hair
  • light skin tone
  • pinkish cheek tones
  • slight smile expression
  • dark background
  • low-resolution pixelation
  • shoulders-up composition
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Full source records (2)

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
200901261806082138115306
Archive entry
200901261806082138115306.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901261806082138115306.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901261806082138115306.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20090126180715654804349
Archive entry
20090126180715654804349.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090126180715654804349.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090126180715654804349.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016