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Pixelated static image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes smiling slightly against white background.

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes smiling slightly against white background.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial face view
  • left side orientation
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of person's head and upper neck. Person has short dark curly hair, light brown skin tone, closed eyes, slight smile showing teeth. Left side of face visible; right eye partially obscured by hair. Background is solid white with black-and-white patterned border on left edge containing square shapes. Image rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes smiling slightly against white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • closed eyes smiling face
  • pixelated white background image
  • light skin tone partial face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • left side face view
  • black and white border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802201445082056368465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e6/e6c9d3d08a9a84691d960542e7e8ad28bf2f94ccfb3d008cc3ef622858751828.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
e6c9d3d08a9a8469
SHA-256
e6c9d3d08a9a84691d960542e7e8ad28bf2f94ccfb3d008cc3ef622858751828
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070929

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes smiling slightly against white background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 00:55 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 582

Review tags

  • closing eyes (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • closing eyes

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • partial face view
  • left side orientation
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows partial view of person's head and upper neck. Person has short dark curly hair, light brown skin tone, closed eyes, slight smile showing teeth. Left side of face visible; right eye partially obscured by hair. Background is solid white with black-and-white patterned border on left edge containing square shapes. Image rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes smiling slightly against white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • closed eyes smiling face
  • pixelated white background image
  • light skin tone partial face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • left side face view
  • black and white border
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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
200802201445082056368465
Archive entry
200802201445082056368465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802201445082056368465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802201445082056368465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016