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Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands.

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Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands.

Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figures
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

Two pixelated human-like figures are in close embrace; the left figure has light brown hair, closed eyes, and wears a white garment. The right figure also has light brown hair with darker highlights and visible dark eyes. Both have fair skin tones. Background features distinct horizontal color bands: pink at top, yellow-orange below it, then blue-green sections. Pixelation is high throughout the image, obscuring fine details but preserving basic shapes and color blocks.

Description

Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands.

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 topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808171957501917682370
  • 200808171957521233639348

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures embracing light brown hair
  • pink yellow-orange blue-green background bands
  • pixelated human figures white clothing
  • intimate mood pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation obscures fine details

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visually Supported Entities

  • two human-like figures

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • white garment
  • dark eyes
  • fair skin
  • pink horizontal band
  • yellow-orange horizontal band
  • blue-green background sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808171957521233639348
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808171957501917682370
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b8bd4c027bdb218db64fbd1c68a27ce059c4afaeea8bcf8c1f5e596aa29999b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
4b8bd4c027bdb218
SHA-256
4b8bd4c027bdb218db64fbd1c68a27ce059c4afaeea8bcf8c1f5e596aa29999b
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.038043

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 24, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
1176
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.849301

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,687 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,133, response 796

Review tags

  • embracing (action, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • intimate (mood, 0.80)
  • horizontal color bands (object, 0.80)
  • blocky colors (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • fair skin (subject, 0.80)
  • light brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • two human like figures (subject, 0.80)
  • white clothing (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • embracing

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow-orange
  • blue-green
  • light brown
  • white
  • dark brown
  • beige

Composition

  • centered figures
  • horizontal background bands

Dense Caption

Two pixelated human-like figures are in close embrace; the left figure has light brown hair, closed eyes, and wears a white garment. The right figure also has light brown hair with darker highlights and visible dark eyes. Both have fair skin tones. Background features distinct horizontal color bands: pink at top, yellow-orange below it, then blue-green sections. Pixelation is high throughout the image, obscuring fine details but preserving basic shapes and color blocks.

Description

Pixelated image of two figures with light brown hair embracing, one figure has dark eyes and a white top, background includes pink and blue horizontal bands.

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 topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808171957501917682370
  • 200808171957521233639348

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • intimate
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures embracing light brown hair
  • pink yellow-orange blue-green background bands
  • pixelated human figures white clothing
  • intimate mood pixel art

Objects

  • horizontal color bands

Preprocessing Notes

  • high pixelation obscures fine details

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

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Subjects

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  • light brown hair
  • fair skin
  • white clothing

Visually Supported Entities

  • two human-like figures

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • white garment
  • dark eyes
  • fair skin
  • pink horizontal band
  • yellow-orange horizontal band
  • blue-green background sections
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Full source records (2)

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
200808171957521233639348
Archive entry
200808171957521233639348.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808171957521233639348.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808171957521233639348.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200808171957501917682370
Archive entry
200808171957501917682370.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808171957501917682370.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808171957501917682370.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016