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Two stylized, pixelated figures with smooth gradients and rounded shapes against a black background.

Two stylized, pixelated figures with smooth gradients and rounded shapes against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical figures
  • centered composition
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows two abstract, vertically oriented forms rendered in low-resolution pixels. Both figures feature smooth gradient transitions from light beige to brown tones. The left figure is taller and more slender, while the right figure has a curved lower section. All visible areas are filled with pixelated color blocks; no distinct facial features or clothing details appear. The background is solid black. Pixelation creates soft edges without sharp lines.

Description

  • Two stylized, pixelated figures with smooth gradients and rounded shapes against a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810302040101295149874

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated figures beige brown
  • smooth gradient abstract forms black background
  • low-resolution vertical shapes
  • beige and brown pixel art two figures

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • pixelated
  • smooth gradients
  • beige and brown tones
  • black background
  • vertical orientation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810302040101295149874
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/5185c518761e6ac3d34a9678668de26d30fe5b01bd51ef2696a5663fe575ed81.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
5185c518761e6ac3
SHA-256
5185c518761e6ac3d34a9678668de26d30fe5b01bd51ef2696a5663fe575ed81
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098579

OpenAI category scores

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Two stylized, pixelated figures with smooth gradients and rounded shapes against a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 621

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • smooth gradients (style, 0.80)
  • abstract forms (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical figures
  • centered composition
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows two abstract, vertically oriented forms rendered in low-resolution pixels. Both figures feature smooth gradient transitions from light beige to brown tones. The left figure is taller and more slender, while the right figure has a curved lower section. All visible areas are filled with pixelated color blocks; no distinct facial features or clothing details appear. The background is solid black. Pixelation creates soft edges without sharp lines.

Description

  • Two stylized, pixelated figures with smooth gradients and rounded shapes against a black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810302040101295149874

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated figures beige brown
  • smooth gradient abstract forms black background
  • low-resolution vertical shapes
  • beige and brown pixel art two figures

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • smooth gradients

Subjects

  • abstract forms

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • pixelated
  • smooth gradients
  • beige and brown tones
  • black background
  • vertical orientation
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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
200810302040101295149874
Archive entry
200810302040101295149874.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810302040101295149874.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810302040101295149874.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016