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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements.

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements.

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has light skin tone, brown hair visible at the top left, and is smiling with visible teeth. The eyes are dark, and the nose is prominent. The background contains blurred dark areas on the left, a yellow element on the right, and a red-orange element below it. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708251334441635851459

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person
  • light skin brown hair
  • yellow red-orange background
  • low-resolution close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

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  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • smiling
  • light skin
  • brown hair
  • visible teeth
  • dark eyes
  • blurred background
  • yellow element
  • red-orange element
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708251334441635851459
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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/fb/fb0c98873bd0ccec304216c771c55fec756f8a5f4b442bd6b1a81e062b3927f9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
fb0c98873bd0ccec
SHA-256
fb0c98873bd0ccec304216c771c55fec756f8a5f4b442bd6b1a81e062b3927f9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004727

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,591 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 800

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • red orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light skin
  • brown
  • yellow
  • red-orange
  • dark

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated close-up of a person's face. The person has light skin tone, brown hair visible at the top left, and is smiling with visible teeth. The eyes are dark, and the nose is prominent. The background contains blurred dark areas on the left, a yellow element on the right, and a red-orange element below it. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text is visible in the image.

Description

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin, brown hair, and visible teeth, set against a blurred background with dark and colorful elements.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708251334441635851459

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated smiling person
  • light skin brown hair
  • yellow red-orange background
  • low-resolution close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • 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

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  • smiling
  • light skin
  • brown hair
  • visible teeth
  • dark eyes
  • blurred background
  • yellow element
  • red-orange element
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  • blocky appearance
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:03 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 (2)
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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
200708251334441635851459
Archive entry
200708251334441635851459.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708251334441635851459.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708251334441635851459.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016