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A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark background.

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A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark background.

A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes detected; appears to be a static frame.

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up

Dense Caption

Two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin are positioned side-by-side. The character on the left wears a dark hooded garment with a blue inner lining. The character on the right has long hair with reddish-brown highlights. Both characters have neutral expressions. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters dark hooded garment
  • two anime characters reddish-brown hair
  • anime characters blue inner lining
  • pixelated anime characters neutral expressions
  • dark background anime characters
  • anime characters compression artifacts
  • two anime characters side-by-side
  • anime characters long dark hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence; no visible motion changes detected.

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

  • two anime characters
  • long dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark hooded garment
  • blue inner lining
  • reddish-brown hair highlights
  • neutral expressions
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905021659451500550056
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26744ff27ca1e51dd72d0ff33fe1ad62d1bdf4e1e6bd2c994de4593fd6b6cbc6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
26744ff27ca1e51d
SHA-256
26744ff27ca1e51dd72d0ff33fe1ad62d1bdf4e1e6bd2c994de4593fd6b6cbc6
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 05:22 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023217

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
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107
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,232 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 775

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • reddish brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue inner lining (object, 0.80)
  • dark hooded garment (object, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two anime characters (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes detected; appears to be a static frame.

Colors

  • dark
  • blue
  • reddish-brown
  • light skin

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up

Dense Caption

Two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin are positioned side-by-side. The character on the left wears a dark hooded garment with a blue inner lining. The character on the right has long hair with reddish-brown highlights. Both characters have neutral expressions. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A static image of two anime-style characters with long dark hair and light skin, positioned side-by-side against a dark 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters dark hooded garment
  • two anime characters reddish-brown hair
  • anime characters blue inner lining
  • pixelated anime characters neutral expressions
  • dark background anime characters
  • anime characters compression artifacts
  • two anime characters side-by-side
  • anime characters long dark hair

Objects

  • dark hooded garment
  • blue inner lining

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence; no visible motion changes detected.

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
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • anime
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • two anime characters

Wordwall

  • two anime characters
  • long dark hair
  • light skin
  • dark hooded garment
  • blue inner lining
  • reddish-brown hair highlights
  • neutral expressions
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
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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
200905021659451500550056
Archive entry
200905021659451500550056.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905021659451500550056.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905021659451500550056.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016