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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background.

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Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background.

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • close-up
  • textured background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face and upper neck. The face is centered with closed eyes, a straight mouth, and visible ear on the left side. The background consists of a textured pattern of brown and gray pixels. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with no visible clothing or accessories. The person's hair is dark and appears to be short or pulled back. The overall composition is a close-up portrait with no additional objects or text present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated portrait
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • textured background grayscale
  • low resolution pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution scan or compressed digital image

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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  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • textured background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • centered face
  • no clothing
  • dark hair
  • brown and gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708282003481791037164
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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/e7/e77b8abf3c0a4bc36a0bb7e21d3fa067b12cf1cce167ff8cde1e78a8b27a47c4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
e77b8abf3c0a4bc3
SHA-256
e77b8abf3c0a4bc36a0bb7e21d3fa067b12cf1cce167ff8cde1e78a8b27a47c4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084128

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

Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 699

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • centered face
  • close-up
  • textured background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixelated image of a person's face and upper neck. The face is centered with closed eyes, a straight mouth, and visible ear on the left side. The background consists of a textured pattern of brown and gray pixels. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with no visible clothing or accessories. The person's hair is dark and appears to be short or pulled back. The overall composition is a close-up portrait with no additional objects or text present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with closed eyes, neutral expression, and visible ear, set against a textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated portrait
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • textured background grayscale
  • low resolution pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution scan or compressed digital image

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • visible ear
  • textured background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • centered face
  • no clothing
  • dark hair
  • brown and gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:30 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)
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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
200708282003481791037164
Archive entry
200708282003481791037164.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708282003481791037164.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708282003481791037164.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016