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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light.

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light.

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • tight crop
  • tilted head
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light. The person has closed eyes with visible eyelashes, a broad smile showing teeth, and light skin tone. The background features indistinct yellow and white areas suggesting light sources or reflections. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's head is tilted slightly to the left. The overall composition is cropped tightly around the face and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090809135544377529097

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person dark hair
  • pixelated yellow background
  • low resolution close-up
  • tilted head smiling
  • light skin closed eyes
  • yellow white background
  • tight crop smiling
  • pixelated face dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects all visual elements

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

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  • pixelated
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  • dark hair
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  • yellow background
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  • tilted head
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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090809135544377529097
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/e5/e56c3cdfa9b19b4f79fb435f353f0e7806ce60d25a8cd833a905ab60d269ebdb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
e56c3cdfa9b19b4f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 08:39 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 21:17 UTC
Run
1252
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,146 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 822

Review tags

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  • tilting head (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • tilting head

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • dark blue
  • light brown
  • light orange

Composition

  • tight crop
  • tilted head
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light. The person has closed eyes with visible eyelashes, a broad smile showing teeth, and light skin tone. The background features indistinct yellow and white areas suggesting light sources or reflections. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. The person's head is tilted slightly to the left. The overall composition is cropped tightly around the face and upper shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with dark hair against a blurred background of yellow and white light.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090809135544377529097

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

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Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects all visual elements

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
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  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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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
20090809135544377529097
Archive entry
20090809135544377529097.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090809135544377529097.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090809135544377529097.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016