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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background.

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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background.

Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Dave Gahan Offic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows close-up of human head from shoulders up. Subject has short dark curly hair, fair skin, visible ears, and closed eyes. Mouth is slightly open showing pink lips. Background is uniform solid black. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette including shades of brown, gray, white, and red. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background.

Fandoms

  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 03
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 03
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan
  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2
  • buddyicons
  • 03
  • Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • album promotion
  • animated icons
  • Dave Gahan
  • unconfirmed namedEntities not promoted: dave-gahan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair black background
  • closed eyes fair skin pink lips
  • low-resolution pixel art human head
  • solid black background static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 03
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 03
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Subjects

  • face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human head
  • face
  • ears

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • dark curly hair
  • fair skin tone
  • visible ears
  • pink lips
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons

Source title
03
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters2
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed1f6f85aa2e8ffe4c976155455d2a0f19ff1569cca6bf219e2b8970712b5211.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Archive ID
ed1f6f85aa2e8ffe
SHA-256
ed1f6f85aa2e8ffe4c976155455d2a0f19ff1569cca6bf219e2b8970712b5211
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100489

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,969 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,031, response 916

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • static (style, 0.80)
  • ears (subject, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)
  • human head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows close-up of human head from shoulders up. Subject has short dark curly hair, fair skin, visible ears, and closed eyes. Mouth is slightly open showing pink lips. Background is uniform solid black. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette including shades of brown, gray, white, and red. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a person's face with dark hair, light skin tone, and closed eyes against a solid black background.

Fandoms

  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (official; search): dave-gahan
  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 03
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 03
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Metadata Only Entities

  • dave-gahan
  • fanarea
  • papermonsters2
  • buddyicons
  • 03
  • Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • 2000s
  • aim
  • album promotion
  • animated icons
  • Dave Gahan
  • unconfirmed namedEntities not promoted: dave-gahan

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair black background
  • closed eyes fair skin pink lips
  • low-resolution pixel art human head
  • solid black background static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • observation category (official): fanarea
  • observation category (official): papermonsters2
  • observation alt-text (official): 03
  • observation category (official): buddyicons
  • observation file-name (official): 03
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance era: 2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: album promotion
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: Dave Gahan

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human head
  • face
  • ears

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  • human head
  • face
  • ears

Wordwall

  • closed eyes
  • dark curly hair
  • fair skin tone
  • visible ears
  • pink lips
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution pixel art
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Dave Gahan Official Buddy Icons (wayback-dave-gahan-official-buddy-icons)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
2003-2006 Official Music Promotion
Type
Wayback direct enumeration of an explicitly named official buddy-icon directory
Category
fanarea / buddyicons / papermonsters2
Alt
03
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Rights
copyrighted official music promotional imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dave Gahan and Depeche Mode solo-era album imagery distributed as official still and animated buddy icons

Original: http://www.davegahan.com/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters2/03.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060630001330id_/http://www.davegahan.com:80/fanarea/buddyicons/papermonsters2/03.gif