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A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background.

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A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background.

A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • tight crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The person has curly brown hair with darker brown and black tones, styled in voluminous waves. The skin tone is light brown. The person is smiling broadly, showing white teeth. The eyes are partially closed in a squint or wink. The background is dark, with no discernible objects or patterns. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person smiling
  • pixelated close-up smiling face
  • brown hair white teeth smile
  • dark background pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation obscures fine details

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

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  • curly brown hair
  • light brown skin
  • broad smile
  • white teeth
  • partially closed eyes
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • static image
  • voluminous hair

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Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
20869
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:13 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e31e1035cd9def62e5d86953cd4fd0870aaf94b45d13e51ea0beb7ce47ae699c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Archive ID
e31e1035cd9def62
SHA-256
e31e1035cd9def62e5d86953cd4fd0870aaf94b45d13e51ea0beb7ce47ae699c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 02:08 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000025

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 06:34 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001178

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001178falsesexual0.000704falseself-harm0.000482falseself-harm/intent0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000025falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
0.246245

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,127 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,021, response 673

Review tags

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  • winking (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • winking

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • centered subject
  • tight crop
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated close-up of a person's face and upper shoulders. The person has curly brown hair with darker brown and black tones, styled in voluminous waves. The skin tone is light brown. The person is smiling broadly, showing white teeth. The eyes are partially closed in a squint or wink. The background is dark, with no discernible objects or patterns. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person with curly brown hair smiling broadly, showing teeth, against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person smiling
  • pixelated close-up smiling face
  • brown hair white teeth smile
  • dark background pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation obscures fine details

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • light brown skin
  • broad smile
  • white teeth
  • partially closed eyes
  • dark background
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:05 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
20869
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:13 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/20869.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111128142314id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/20869.gif