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Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color.

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Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color.

Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color. Animated 49×49 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with two side-by-side facial views

Composition

  • side-by-side views
  • upper face crop

Dense Caption

Left view shows light brown or blonde hair, fair skin, visible eyebrows, eyes with subtle red tones in the irises, nose, mouth with lips slightly parted. Right view shows dark brown or black hair, fair skin, visible eyebrows, eyes with lighter blue-gray tones in the irises, nose, mouth with lips closed. Both views are cropped to show only upper face from forehead to chin. Pixelation is consistent across both images.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • 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
  • u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
  • u

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair dark brown hair face comparison
  • fair skin red eye tones blue-gray eye tones
  • parted lips closed lips upper face crop
  • pixelated side-by-side facial views

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark brown hair
  • fair skin
  • red eye tones
  • blue-gray eye tones
  • parted lips
  • closed lips
  • upper face crop

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:54 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×49 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/27/2761795f743d036e94b31353fca4da0a96e881ed1ac74a2dee5bd3bd339abee9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:54 UTC
Archive ID
2761795f743d036e
SHA-256
2761795f743d036e94b31353fca4da0a96e881ed1ac74a2dee5bd3bd339abee9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
1176
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010095

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:25 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

Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,016 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,126, response 628

Review tags

  • blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • fair skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
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  • close up (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with two side-by-side facial views

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • fair skin tone
  • red
  • blue-gray

Composition

  • side-by-side views
  • upper face crop

Dense Caption

Left view shows light brown or blonde hair, fair skin, visible eyebrows, eyes with subtle red tones in the irises, nose, mouth with lips slightly parted. Right view shows dark brown or black hair, fair skin, visible eyebrows, eyes with lighter blue-gray tones in the irises, nose, mouth with lips closed. Both views are cropped to show only upper face from forehead to chin. Pixelation is consistent across both images.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated close-up views of a person's face showing different facial expressions and hair color.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • 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
  • u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
  • u

Mood

  • neutral
  • serious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair dark brown hair face comparison
  • fair skin red eye tones blue-gray eye tones
  • parted lips closed lips upper face crop
  • pixelated side-by-side facial views

Style

  • pixelated
  • close-up

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • light brown hair
  • dark brown hair
  • fair skin
  • red eye tones
  • blue-gray eye tones
  • parted lips
  • closed lips
  • upper face crop
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July 13, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
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Version
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Elapsed
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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 / u
Alt
u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:54 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/u/u9391da4649-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070217175925id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u9391da4649-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 / u
Alt
u9391da4649-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 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/u/u9391da4649-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070217175925id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u9391da4649-IMBUDDY.gif