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Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped
  • face-centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has visible pixelation with color blending across the face. The left side of the face appears lighter with a white background, while the right side shows warmer tones. The person has dark hair visible at the top right. The image is cropped tightly around the face with no visible clothing or background elements beyond the white space on the left.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • cropped face with white background
  • person with dark hair
  • color blending face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low-resolution

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • color blending
  • cropped

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070823073659566630709
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/daca3a5f2121e90ac24a4e40e75b2516350c0e1e3ba3df7aa6ec6e31add033d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
daca3a5f2121e90a
SHA-256
daca3a5f2121e90ac24a4e40e75b2516350c0e1e3ba3df7aa6ec6e31add033d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077657

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,442 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • light brown
  • brown
  • dark brown
  • red

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped
  • face-centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth. The image has visible pixelation with color blending across the face. The left side of the face appears lighter with a white background, while the right side shows warmer tones. The person has dark hair visible at the top right. The image is cropped tightly around the face with no visible clothing or background elements beyond the white space on the left.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing partial features including eyes, nose, and mouth with visible pixelation and color blending.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • cropped face with white background
  • person with dark hair
  • color blending face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation
  • low-resolution

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • face
  • eyes
  • nose
  • mouth
  • dark hair
  • white background
  • color blending
  • cropped
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:44 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070823073659566630709
Archive entry
20070823073659566630709.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070823073659566630709.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070823073659566630709.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016