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Three pixelated faces in close proximity against a dark background with light gradient above.

Three pixelated faces in close proximity against a dark background with light gradient above. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three figures in close proximity
  • horizontal alignment
  • top-to-bottom gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows three human faces positioned closely together, each face rendered with low-resolution color blocks. Leftmost face has reddish-brown skin tone and closed eyes; middle face has darker brown skin tone and visible mouth; rightmost face has lighter pinkish skin tone with open mouth. All faces have dark hair. Background consists of light gray gradient at top transitioning to solid black below the heads. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Three pixelated faces in close proximity against a dark background with light gradient above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812191334191909155600
  • franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three pixelated faces close together
  • red-brown closed eyes dark hair
  • darker brown visible mouth pink open mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

Subjects

  • human faces

Visually Supported Entities

  • human faces

Wordwall

  • three human faces
  • pixelated rendering
  • reddish-brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • darker brown skin
  • visible mouth
  • light pink skin
  • open mouth
  • dark hair
  • gray gradient background
  • solid black lower portion

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812191334191909155600
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/391c875d774cf00dedde3d9737338e407d205caf051ab279efea7e3493ad6741.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
391c875d774cf00d
SHA-256
391c875d774cf00dedde3d9737338e407d205caf051ab279efea7e3493ad6741
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094895

OpenAI category scores

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Three pixelated faces in close proximity against a dark background with light gradient above.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,188 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 723

Review tags

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  • darker brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish (color, 0.80)
  • red brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • human faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red-brown
  • darker brown
  • pinkish
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • three figures in close proximity
  • horizontal alignment
  • top-to-bottom gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows three human faces positioned closely together, each face rendered with low-resolution color blocks. Leftmost face has reddish-brown skin tone and closed eyes; middle face has darker brown skin tone and visible mouth; rightmost face has lighter pinkish skin tone with open mouth. All faces have dark hair. Background consists of light gray gradient at top transitioning to solid black below the heads. Image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Three pixelated faces in close proximity against a dark background with light gradient above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812191334191909155600
  • franksicons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three pixelated faces close together
  • red-brown closed eyes dark hair
  • darker brown visible mouth pink open mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

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

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  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital

Subjects

  • human faces

Visually Supported Entities

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Wordwall

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  • pixelated rendering
  • reddish-brown skin
  • closed eyes
  • darker brown skin
  • visible mouth
  • light pink skin
  • open mouth
  • dark hair
  • gray gradient background
  • solid black lower portion
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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
200812191334191909155600
Archive entry
200812191334191909155600.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#200812191334191909155600.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812191334191909155600.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016