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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped head
  • upper neck
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. The person has visible ears, with the right ear showing redness. The background is blurred with muted brown and beige tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible. The person wears a dark collar and light-colored shirt. The image is cropped to show the head and upper neck.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person face
  • short dark hair neutral expression
  • red ear blurred background
  • low-resolution blocky image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • red ear
  • blurred background
  • muted brown
  • beige tones
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • dark collar
  • light shirt
  • cropped head
  • upper neck

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
42056
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:20 UTC

Original record Source download

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/f8/f83cdb29bb88e43fe5e94d9181cdb7699c57be8d27634873d81b6a0a83a511f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Archive ID
f83cdb29bb88e43f
SHA-256
f83cdb29bb88e43fe5e94d9181cdb7699c57be8d27634873d81b6a0a83a511f2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073734

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,606 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,025, response 691

Review tags

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

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • dark brown
  • light skin
  • red
  • dark
  • light

Composition

  • close-up
  • cropped head
  • upper neck
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. The person has visible ears, with the right ear showing redness. The background is blurred with muted brown and beige tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital compression. No text or symbols are visible. The person wears a dark collar and light-colored shirt. The image is cropped to show the head and upper neck.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with short dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated person face
  • short dark hair neutral expression
  • red ear blurred background
  • low-resolution blocky image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • close-up
  • short dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • red ear
  • blurred background
  • muted brown
  • beige tones
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • dark collar
  • light shirt
  • cropped head
  • upper neck
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:56 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
42056
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/42056.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111126113338id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/42056.gif