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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear, set against a dark background with a bright light source on the right.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear, set against a dark background with a bright light source on the right.

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear. The face is angled slightly downward with a neutral expression. A bright light source creates a strong highlight on the right side of the face and ear. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear, set against a dark background with a bright light source on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903131033081517658824

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes light skin tone
  • pixelated face dark background
  • low-resolution neutral expression
  • bright light source visible ear

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • light skin tone
  • visible ear
  • bright light source
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • neutral expression
  • face angled downward
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903131033081517658824
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
e2abd43ffd451dff
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear, set against a dark background with a bright light source on the right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,837 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • dark
  • bright white

Composition

  • close-up
  • face centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear. The face is angled slightly downward with a neutral expression. A bright light source creates a strong highlight on the right side of the face and ear. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with closed eyes, light skin tone, and visible ear, set against a dark background with a bright light source on the right.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200903131033081517658824

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • closed eyes light skin tone
  • pixelated face dark background
  • low-resolution neutral expression
  • bright light source visible ear

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

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  • visible ear
  • bright light source
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
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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
200903131033081517658824
Archive entry
200903131033081517658824.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#200903131033081517658824.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903131033081517658824.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016