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Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire.

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Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire.

Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire. 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side arrangement
  • full-body view
  • centered characters on solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct 8-bit style video game characters rendered in low-resolution pixels. The character on the left wears a red cap with white trim, a red shirt with white chest panel, blue overalls, brown shoes, and has light skin tone; he holds his right hand up near his face. The character on the right wears a green cap with white trim, a green shirt with white chest panel, blue overalls, brown shoes, and has light skin tone; he stands facing forward. Both characters have large dark eyes and small mouths. The background is solid purple. No text or additional symbols are visible.

Description

Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario character
  • Luigi character

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071022151305386281570

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cap green cap blue overalls
  • Mario Luigi pixel art
  • video game characters purple background
  • 8-bit style side-by-side

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario character
  • Luigi character

Wordwall

  • red cap
  • green cap
  • blue overalls
  • brown shoes
  • light skin tone
  • solid purple background
  • 8-bit style
  • pixelated rendering
  • large dark eyes
  • small mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071022151305386281570
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
2e7d7ae47c07c550
SHA-256
2e7d7ae47c07c5507e6475f84a795cd43ce4c7980149b0e05b11fe045e5d610c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087843

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:03 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,338 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 805

Review tags

  • left character holds hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • right character stands facing forward (action, 0.80)
  • blue overalls (object, 0.80)
  • brown shoes (object, 0.80)
  • green cap (object, 0.80)
  • red cap (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution rendering (style, 0.80)
  • video game character design (style, 0.80)
  • luigi character (subject, 0.80)
  • mario character (subject, 0.80)
  • two video game characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • left character holds hand near face
  • right character stands facing forward

Colors

  • purple
  • red
  • green
  • blue
  • brown
  • light skin tone
  • white

Composition

  • side-by-side arrangement
  • full-body view
  • centered characters on solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct 8-bit style video game characters rendered in low-resolution pixels. The character on the left wears a red cap with white trim, a red shirt with white chest panel, blue overalls, brown shoes, and has light skin tone; he holds his right hand up near his face. The character on the right wears a green cap with white trim, a green shirt with white chest panel, blue overalls, brown shoes, and has light skin tone; he stands facing forward. Both characters have large dark eyes and small mouths. The background is solid purple. No text or additional symbols are visible.

Description

Two pixelated characters stand side-by-side against a solid purple background, one with red cap and blue overalls, the other with green cap and matching attire.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Mario character
  • Luigi character

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071022151305386281570

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • neutral expression
  • static pose

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Mario Luigi pixel art
  • video game characters purple background
  • 8-bit style side-by-side

Objects

  • red cap
  • green cap
  • blue overalls
  • brown shoes
  • white chest panels

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution rendering
  • video game character design

Subjects

  • two video game characters
  • Mario character
  • Luigi character

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mario character
  • Luigi character

Wordwall

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  • green cap
  • blue overalls
  • brown shoes
  • light skin tone
  • solid purple background
  • 8-bit style
  • pixelated rendering
  • large dark eyes
  • small mouth
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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
20071022151305386281570
Archive entry
20071022151305386281570.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071022151305386281570.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071022151305386281570.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016