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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered
  • left side ear visible
  • right side open eyes
  • closed eyes left side

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair. The person has a neutral expression with closed eyes on the left side of the image and open eyes on the right side. The visible ear is on the left side of the image. The person wears a dark top. The background is brown. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face brown eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression closed eyes open eyes
  • brown background dark top
  • low-resolution close-up
  • left side ear visible
  • blocky rendering face
  • light skin tone brown background
  • pixelated neutral face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation is inherent to image quality, not post-processing

Source Metadata Interpretation

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era claims (2007, 2016) and collection claims (franksicons, 2007-2016) but these are not confirmed by image pixels

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • brown eyes
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
  • visible ear
  • dark top
  • brown background
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering
  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • left side ear
  • right side open eyes
  • closed eyes left
  • neutral face
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812091556201209738435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f1fb1500cb4258d4d2780866f19c9729cf17702c881201a63048468a646ade58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
f1fb1500cb4258d4
SHA-256
f1fb1500cb4258d4d2780866f19c9729cf17702c881201a63048468a646ade58
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000747

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004695

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 755

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • dark

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered
  • left side ear visible
  • right side open eyes
  • closed eyes left side

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair. The person has a neutral expression with closed eyes on the left side of the image and open eyes on the right side. The visible ear is on the left side of the image. The person wears a dark top. The background is brown. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, brown eyes, and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a brown background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face brown eyes dark hair
  • neutral expression closed eyes open eyes
  • brown background dark top
  • low-resolution close-up
  • left side ear visible
  • blocky rendering face
  • light skin tone brown background
  • pixelated neutral face

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation is inherent to image quality, not post-processing

Source Metadata Interpretation

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Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
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  • visible ear
  • dark top
  • brown background
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  • low-resolution
  • close-up
  • left side ear
  • right side open eyes
  • closed eyes left
  • neutral face
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated face
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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
200812091556201209738435
Archive entry
200812091556201209738435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812091556201209738435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812091556201209738435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016