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Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames.

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Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames.

Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • mouth open

Animation

  • mouth opens/closes
  • hair shifts

Animation Summary

  • The right individual's mouth opens and closes between frames, and their head shifts slightly left to right.

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up
  • cropped

Dense Caption

Two individuals with dark curly hair appear side-by-side. The left individual wears a black shirt. The right individual's shirt color is indistinct. In the top-left frame, the right individual's mouth is closed. In the top-right frame, the right individual's mouth is open in a smile. In the bottom-left frame, the right individual's mouth is closed. In the bottom-right frame, the right individual's mouth is open in a smile. All frames show the same background with white and dark areas. The right individual's head position shifts slightly between frames.

Description

  • Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811141410331101522799

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people dark curly hair black shirt
  • smiling mouth open closed
  • pixelated buddy icon animation
  • white background dark hair
  • mouth open mouth closed animation
  • two people side-by-side animation
  • black shirt white background
  • hair shift mouth open

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping artifacts

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 people
  • dark curly hair
  • black shirt
  • white background
  • mouth closed
  • mouth open
  • smiling
  • hair shift

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811141410331101522799
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
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 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
3fb342e87c577428
SHA-256
3fb342e87c57742835b3b89db09ce74d5b88edd03dc163dd20c561d77f4616a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075106

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Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,968 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 804

Review tags

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  • mouth closed (action, 0.80)
  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • mouth open
  • mouth closed
  • hair shift

Animation

  • mouth opens/closes
  • hair shifts

Animation Summary

  • The right individual's mouth opens and closes between frames, and their head shifts slightly left to right.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up
  • cropped

Dense Caption

Two individuals with dark curly hair appear side-by-side. The left individual wears a black shirt. The right individual's shirt color is indistinct. In the top-left frame, the right individual's mouth is closed. In the top-right frame, the right individual's mouth is open in a smile. In the bottom-left frame, the right individual's mouth is closed. In the bottom-right frame, the right individual's mouth is open in a smile. All frames show the same background with white and dark areas. The right individual's head position shifts slightly between frames.

Description

  • Two individuals with dark curly hair, one in a black shirt, positioned side-by-side with varying facial expressions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811141410331101522799

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • smiling mouth open closed
  • pixelated buddy icon animation
  • white background dark hair
  • mouth open mouth closed animation
  • two people side-by-side animation
  • black shirt white background
  • hair shift mouth open

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte present
  • no cropping artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two people

Wordwall

  • two people
  • dark curly hair
  • black shirt
  • white background
  • mouth closed
  • mouth open
  • smiling
  • hair shift
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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
200811141410331101522799
Archive entry
200811141410331101522799.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811141410331101522799.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811141410331101522799.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016