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Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style.

Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale depiction of a human face. The face has two eyes with visible pupils and eyebrows, a nose with a defined bridge and nostrils, and a wide open mouth showing teeth. The mouth is open in a broad expression, with the lower lip appearing slightly thicker than the upper lip. The head is tilted slightly to the right. The background is a uniform light gray. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with varying shades of gray to define facial features. The pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky pixels throughout the entire image. The overall composition is a close-up of the face, centered in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807291934421960377180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • wide eyes open mouth
  • tilted head grayscale
  • low resolution face close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • tilted head
  • light gray background
  • facial features
  • blocky pixels
  • close-up

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807291934421960377180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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/f2/f29d32b6e7b648325bd3ff9331c96c1a78cfa739908337c24bf51bfa0a142f13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
f29d32b6e7b64832
SHA-256
f29d32b6e7b648325bd3ff9331c96c1a78cfa739908337c24bf51bfa0a142f13
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.075394

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
17,039 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 839

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • tilted head (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • amused (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • open mouth
  • tilted head

Colors

  • gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale depiction of a human face. The face has two eyes with visible pupils and eyebrows, a nose with a defined bridge and nostrils, and a wide open mouth showing teeth. The mouth is open in a broad expression, with the lower lip appearing slightly thicker than the upper lip. The head is tilted slightly to the right. The background is a uniform light gray. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with varying shades of gray to define facial features. The pixelation is prominent, with visible blocky pixels throughout the entire image. The overall composition is a close-up of the face, centered in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a face with wide eyes, a broad open mouth, and a slightly tilted head, rendered in a low-resolution style.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807291934421960377180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • surprised
  • amused

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated face
  • wide eyes open mouth
  • tilted head grayscale
  • low resolution face close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • face

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • tilted head
  • light gray background
  • facial features
  • blocky pixels
  • close-up
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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
200807291934421960377180
Archive entry
200807291934421960377180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807291934421960377180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807291934421960377180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016