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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background.

Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static portrait showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair that appears slightly tousled, with strands falling across the forehead and sides of the face. Skin tone is light pinkish-beige. Facial features include closed eyes (one eye partially visible), a nose, and lips forming a subtle smile. The person wears a black garment covering the shoulders and chest. Background consists of solid white pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair
  • closed eyes black top white background
  • subtle smile light skin
  • person pixelated portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • black top
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071023154217865230620
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ee/eecbce551a9015d76c088b6827fd5dd900f3c10421fca873bd1a3d50e2628c4b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
eecbce551a9015d7
SHA-256
eecbce551a9015d76c088b6827fd5dd900f3c10421fca873bd1a3d50e2628c4b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081433

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,381 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 625

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish beige (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static portrait (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pinkish-beige

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static portrait showing the upper torso and head of an individual. The subject has short dark hair that appears slightly tousled, with strands falling across the forehead and sides of the face. Skin tone is light pinkish-beige. Facial features include closed eyes (one eye partially visible), a nose, and lips forming a subtle smile. The person wears a black garment covering the shoulders and chest. Background consists of solid white pixels. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals no text or symbols.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person with dark hair and light skin, wearing a black top against a white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person dark hair
  • closed eyes black top white background
  • subtle smile light skin
  • person pixelated portrait

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • static portrait

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portrait
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • closed eyes
  • subtle smile
  • black top
  • white background
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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
20071023154217865230620
Archive entry
20071023154217865230620.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071023154217865230620.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071023154217865230620.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016