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

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

Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Capt…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static close-up focusing on the upper half of a human face. Visible features include two brown eyes with defined eyelashes, a small rounded nose, and a closed mouth forming a neutral expression. The skin tone appears light beige. Dark hair is visible at the top left corner. The background consists of dark pixels transitioning to lighter tones around the face. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic facial structure.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
  • Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • light skin brown eyes
  • neutral expression dark background
  • beige brown black colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no source-derived claims supported by pixels

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face close-up
  • light skin
  • brown eyes
  • closed mouth
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c3c46ca2f4c7bf64a9bba21a5266fef4f90d5b3d3c00a6c1e7844b8e61db871.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Archive ID
3c3c46ca2f4c7bf6
SHA-256
3c3c46ca2f4c7bf64a9bba21a5266fef4f90d5b3d3c00a6c1e7844b8e61db871
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082155

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917845onnx/unsafe0.082155onnx/nsfw0.041852onnx/nsfl0.040303
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

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

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:51 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,999 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,072, response 630

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a highly pixelated static close-up focusing on the upper half of a human face. Visible features include two brown eyes with defined eyelashes, a small rounded nose, and a closed mouth forming a neutral expression. The skin tone appears light beige. Dark hair is visible at the top left corner. The background consists of dark pixels transitioning to lighter tones around the face. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic facial structure.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a person's face showing eyes, nose, and mouth with light skin tone against dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
  • Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated face close-up
  • light skin brown eyes
  • neutral expression dark background
  • beige brown black colors

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible compression artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no source-derived claims supported by pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human face

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • face close-up
  • light skin
  • brown eyes
  • closed mouth
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • dark background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:02 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 / e
Alt
ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 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/e/ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219193621id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/ed6dfd0dd33-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 / e
Alt
ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 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/e/ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219193621id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/ed6dfd0dd33-IMBUDDY.gif