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Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static image shows pixelated close-up of a person's right side profile. Visible features include short dark hair, ear, neck, and partial shoulder. Skin tone is medium brown. Background consists of dark tones with faint vertical light streaks on left side. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200902191612371560503618
  • franksicons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile face dark hair
  • low resolution close-up person
  • vertical light streak background
  • medium skin tone pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • medium skin tone
  • vertical light streaks
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902191612371560503618
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f1974a9607db043193240fa975eff13ab2c0b95373a54e6e3ea2f5c474fd4801.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
f1974a9607db0431
SHA-256
f1974a9607db043193240fa975eff13ab2c0b95373a54e6e3ea2f5c474fd4801
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104996

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,213 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 680

Review tags

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

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • profile view
  • dark background

Dense Caption

Static image shows pixelated close-up of a person's right side profile. Visible features include short dark hair, ear, neck, and partial shoulder. Skin tone is medium brown. Background consists of dark tones with faint vertical light streaks on left side. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face in profile, dark hair visible against dim background with vertical light streaks.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200902191612371560503618
  • franksicons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated profile face dark hair
  • low resolution close-up person
  • vertical light streak background
  • medium skin tone pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from smaller original

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
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • profile view
  • dark hair
  • medium skin tone
  • vertical light streaks
  • low resolution
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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
200902191612371560503618
Archive entry
200902191612371560503618.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902191612371560503618.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902191612371560503618.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016