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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

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Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair. The person wears a dark top. The background is blurred with indistinct light and dark tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The person's mouth is open in a smile, showing teeth. The eyes are partially closed or squinting. The lighting appears to be bright, causing a white glare on the right side of the face. The overall image quality is low due to pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708160854121880039429

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person pixelated
  • light skin dark hair
  • dark top white glare
  • blurred background squinting eyes

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

Wordwall

  • smiling person
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • white glare
  • open mouth
  • teeth
  • squinting eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708160854121880039429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/feb5802fd3e56d97c0a9181079a0dd77a71fe1a4a511e9199cdb745279fdaf5e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
feb5802fd3e56d97
SHA-256
feb5802fd3e56d97c0a9181079a0dd77a71fe1a4a511e9199cdb745279fdaf5e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 23:07 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001309

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:23 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,463 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 805

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • blurred background tones (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • dark top (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white glare (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • squinting

Colors

  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • dark top
  • white glare
  • blurred background tones

Composition

  • close-up
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair. The person wears a dark top. The background is blurred with indistinct light and dark tones. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The person's mouth is open in a smile, showing teeth. The eyes are partially closed or squinting. The lighting appears to be bright, causing a white glare on the right side of the face. The overall image quality is low due to pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin and dark hair, wearing a dark top against a blurred 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708160854121880039429

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • smiling person pixelated
  • light skin dark hair
  • dark top white glare
  • blurred background squinting eyes

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
  • 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

  • smiling person
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • dark top
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • white glare
  • open mouth
  • teeth
  • squinting eyes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:50 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)
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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
200708160854121880039429
Archive entry
200708160854121880039429.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708160854121880039429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708160854121880039429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016