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Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark background.

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Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark background.

Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • close-up
  • overlapping faces

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image of two human-like figures positioned closely together. Left figure has visible eye, nose, mouth; right figure shows partial face including eye and mouth. Both have light-toned skin tones against dark background. Pixelation obscures fine details. No text or symbols present. Composition is centered with minimal negative space.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark 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 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
  • 20081001233740924405467

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated faces grayscale
  • grayscale side-by-side human figures
  • pixel art dark background faces
  • low-resolution overlapping faces

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • dark background
  • light skin

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081001233740924405467
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
5facfaea74ecc2bd
SHA-256
5facfaea74ecc2bdee9033d5d23b5e18fb1c8b8cf9a539ae7ee8b09d16db8f94
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 23:35 UTC
Run
1275
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Preprocessing
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
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Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,908 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 578

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human like figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered
  • close-up
  • overlapping faces

Dense Caption

Grayscale static image of two human-like figures positioned closely together. Left figure has visible eye, nose, mouth; right figure shows partial face including eye and mouth. Both have light-toned skin tones against dark background. Pixelation obscures fine details. No text or symbols present. Composition is centered with minimal negative space.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in grayscale, side-by-side with overlapping features and a dark 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 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
  • 20081001233740924405467

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • grayscale side-by-side human figures
  • pixel art dark background faces
  • low-resolution overlapping faces

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human-like figures

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • dark background
  • light skin
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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
20081001233740924405467
Archive entry
20081001233740924405467.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081001233740924405467.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081001233740924405467.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016