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A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text.

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A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text.

A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped head and shoulders
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and a dark collar. The background is blurred with partial text elements visible. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital imagery. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper torso and head. The background contains indistinct text fragments.

Description

A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • short hair
  • dark collar
  • blurred background
  • partial text
  • neutral expression
  • cropped head and shoulders
  • low-resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

Visible Text

  • EM

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • short hair
  • visible facial features
  • dark collar
  • blurred background
  • partial text
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • upper torso
  • cropped head and shoulders

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
43406
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:38 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb214d58683c80073f6e10daa983cf97324591032f60e53e6fab41fd19e46fee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 00:38 UTC
Archive ID
fb214d58683c8007
SHA-256
fb214d58683c80073f6e10daa983cf97324591032f60e53e6fab41fd19e46fee
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 13:36 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.032002

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.032002falseself-harm0.018585falsesexual0.002915falseviolence/graphic0.002386falseself-harm/intent0.000283falseself-harm/instructions0.000235falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156454

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.843546onnx/unsafe0.156454onnx/nsfw0.113345onnx/nsfl0.043109
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,718 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,024, response 727

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • cropped head and shoulders
  • central subject
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features including eyes, nose, mouth, and a dark collar. The background is blurred with partial text elements visible. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital imagery. The person's expression appears neutral. The image is cropped to show the upper torso and head. The background contains indistinct text fragments.

Description

A pixelated grayscale portrait of a person with short hair, visible facial features, and a dark collar against a blurred background with partial text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grayscale portrait
  • short hair
  • dark collar
  • blurred background
  • partial text
  • neutral expression
  • cropped head and shoulders
  • low-resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

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

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  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • EM

Wordwall

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  • short hair
  • visible facial features
  • dark collar
  • blurred background
  • partial text
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • upper torso
  • cropped head and shoulders
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 05:03 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 (1)
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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
43406
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:38 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
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