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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone. Visible features include a single eye with visible eyelid and pupil, a nose, a mouth showing teeth, and an ear. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark 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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person face pixelated
  • light skin tone eye mouth teeth
  • dark background close-up
  • low resolution pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • single eye visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth showing teeth
  • ear visible
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902242156402112893438
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f86e594c600487ac4829aee7b8c52d547cbfa3adc3519fa3b2d3f10812a48079.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
f86e594c600487ac
SHA-256
f86e594c600487ac4829aee7b8c52d547cbfa3adc3519fa3b2d3f10812a48079
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.125381

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,523 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 675

Review tags

  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • dark background

Composition

  • close-up
  • face-centered

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone. Visible features include a single eye with visible eyelid and pupil, a nose, a mouth showing teeth, and an ear. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin tone, visible eye, nose, mouth, and ear against dark 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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person face pixelated
  • light skin tone eye mouth teeth
  • dark background close-up
  • low resolution pixelated face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light skin tone
  • single eye visible
  • nose visible
  • mouth showing teeth
  • ear visible
  • dark background
  • low resolution
  • pixelated
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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
200902242156402112893438
Archive entry
200902242156402112893438.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902242156402112893438.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902242156402112893438.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016