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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background.

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Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background.

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows close-up of individual with voluminous dark brown to black curly hair framing face. Light skin tone visible across forehead, cheeks, nose, chin. Eyes appear closed or squinted; mouth is slightly open in relaxed pose. Background transitions from pale lavender on left to warm gold on right. Pixelation creates blocky texture throughout image. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • observation category (broad): f
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • light skin neutral expression
  • pale lavender to gold background
  • pixelated portrait close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slightly open mouth
  • pale lavender background
  • warm gold background
  • pixelated texture

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / f
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
f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / f
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
3.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f63f54da22a28b53d4f44961182425419358a5e91901c09d926684c0c755ac1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:38 UTC
Archive ID
4f63f54da22a28b5
SHA-256
4f63f54da22a28b53d4f44961182425419358a5e91901c09d926684c0c755ac1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103483

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.896517onnx/unsafe0.103483onnx/nsfw0.069758onnx/nsfl0.033724
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 05:52 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,841 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 585

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • pale lavender (color, 0.80)
  • warm gold (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution portrait (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • black
  • light beige
  • pale lavender
  • warm gold

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image shows close-up of individual with voluminous dark brown to black curly hair framing face. Light skin tone visible across forehead, cheeks, nose, chin. Eyes appear closed or squinted; mouth is slightly open in relaxed pose. Background transitions from pale lavender on left to warm gold on right. Pixelation creates blocky texture throughout image. No text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated portrait of a person with dark curly hair, light skin tone, and neutral expression against gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • observation category (broad): f
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark curly hair person
  • light skin neutral expression
  • pale lavender to gold background
  • pixelated portrait close-up

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2003-2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution portrait

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • light skin tone
  • closed eyes
  • slightly open mouth
  • pale lavender background
  • warm gold background
  • pixelated texture
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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 / f
Alt
f05d7230d5a-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/f/f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117034529id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/f/f05d7230d5a-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 / f
Alt
f05d7230d5a-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/f/f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117034529id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/f/f05d7230d5a-IMBUDDY.gif