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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background.

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background.

Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two figures in close proximity
  • left figure slightly behind right figure
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct human-like figures rendered in low-resolution pixels. The left figure has pale skin tone, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and short light-colored hair; its expression appears neutral to slightly smiling. The right figure also has pale skin tone, with visible eye, nose, mouth, and dark hair tied back or styled upward; it is positioned closer to the viewer than the left figure. Both figures are cropped closely around their heads and upper faces. Background consists of indistinct dark tones with subtle hints of greenish-brown textures. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic facial structure recognition.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071011164840593085672

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two human figures pixelated
  • pale skin light dark hair close crop
  • low resolution portrait faces
  • dark background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution, indicated by pixelation and lack of fine detail

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-like figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • human-like figure (left)
  • human-like figure (right)

Wordwall

  • two human-like figures
  • pale skin tone
  • light hair (left)
  • dark hair (right)
  • neutral expression
  • close cropping
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dark background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071011164840593085672
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4bc8df6a45f79d526e57dbdcf512c350343184a83eee082d7f0d45a6d8bd23d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
4bc8df6a45f79d52
SHA-256
4bc8df6a45f79d526e57dbdcf512c350343184a83eee082d7f0d45a6d8bd23d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.284007

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,223 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 802

Review tags

  • dark brown black hair (color, 0.80)
  • dark greenish brown background (color, 0.80)
  • light brown hair (color, 0.80)
  • pale skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • close up portrait (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human like figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pale skin tone
  • light brown hair
  • dark brown/black hair
  • dark greenish-brown background

Composition

  • two figures in close proximity
  • left figure slightly behind right figure
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows two distinct human-like figures rendered in low-resolution pixels. The left figure has pale skin tone, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and short light-colored hair; its expression appears neutral to slightly smiling. The right figure also has pale skin tone, with visible eye, nose, mouth, and dark hair tied back or styled upward; it is positioned closer to the viewer than the left figure. Both figures are cropped closely around their heads and upper faces. Background consists of indistinct dark tones with subtle hints of greenish-brown textures. Pixelation obscures fine details but preserves basic facial structure recognition.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light hair and the other with darker hair, against a dark background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071011164840593085672

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two human figures pixelated
  • pale skin light dark hair close crop
  • low resolution portrait faces
  • dark background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution, indicated by pixelation and lack of fine detail

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • close-up portrait

Subjects

  • human-like figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • human-like figure (left)
  • human-like figure (right)

Wordwall

  • two human-like figures
  • pale skin tone
  • light hair (left)
  • dark hair (right)
  • neutral expression
  • close cropping
  • low-resolution pixels
  • dark background
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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
20071011164840593085672
Archive entry
20071011164840593085672.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071011164840593085672.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071011164840593085672.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016