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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background.

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Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background.

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up crop
  • face oriented left to right
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up showing the right side of a person's face. The subject has light skin tone, visible eyelashes on closed eyes, and short dark hair. A small yellowish mark appears near the eye area. The background is solid black with faint greenish pixels at the edges. The image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • observation category (broad): c
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • c271991aef5-IMBUDDY

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair closed eyes
  • light skin yellow mark black background
  • 2003 2008 buddy icon pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal material

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • yellow mark near eye
  • black background
  • green edge pixels

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
c271991aef5-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / c
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:34 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
c271991aef5-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / c
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:41 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/5d/5d02eab8c439be03eca02e2ddf595d8946bafccbd149da477e8e41093d6ca091.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Archive ID
5d02eab8c439be03
SHA-256
5d02eab8c439be03eca02e2ddf595d8946bafccbd149da477e8e41093d6ca091
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.419149

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.580851onnx/unsafe0.419149onnx/nsfw0.385405onnx/nsfl0.033744
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,257 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,073, response 580

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light pinkish white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • early 2000s web graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • person s face right side (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light pinkish-white
  • dark brown/black
  • yellow
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • close-up crop
  • face oriented left to right
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated close-up showing the right side of a person's face. The subject has light skin tone, visible eyelashes on closed eyes, and short dark hair. A small yellowish mark appears near the eye area. The background is solid black with faint greenish pixels at the edges. The image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face with light skin, dark hair, and closed eyes against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • observation category (broad): c
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • c271991aef5-IMBUDDY

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face dark hair closed eyes
  • light skin yellow mark black background
  • 2003 2008 buddy icon pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal material

Style

  • pixelated digital rendering
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s web graphics

Subjects

  • person's face (right side)

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • dark hair
  • yellow mark near eye
  • black background
  • green edge pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:00 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / c
Alt
c271991aef5-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/c/c271991aef5-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117040322id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/c/c271991aef5-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / c
Alt
c271991aef5-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 03:41 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/c/c271991aef5-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117040322id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/c/c271991aef5-IMBUDDY.gif