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Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom.

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom.

Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered faces
  • horizontal alignment
  • text banner at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of two human faces positioned side-by-side, both smiling. Left face has light skin tone and visible eyes; right face shows partial facial features including an eye and mouth. Both have brown hair. Below the faces is a solid black rectangular banner containing white pixelated text reading 'Best Friends'. Background consists of blurred brown tones. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends pixel art
  • two smiling faces banner
  • pixelated best friends text
  • brown hair smiling faces

Visible Text

  • Best Friends

Visually Supported Entities

  • Best Friends text

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • side-by-side positioning
  • smiling expressions
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • black banner
  • white text
  • 'Best Friends' text
  • pixelated rendering
  • blurred brown background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080502175432821267961
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/613bafe977acc972b4b8ae79be9aa8638af1be794d7cc139cbf206594fb42a51.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
613bafe977acc972
SHA-256
613bafe977acc972b4b8ae79be9aa8638af1be794d7cc139cbf206594fb42a51
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.153705

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:14 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,473 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 565

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • black banner (object, 0.80)
  • brown hair (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • two human faces (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered faces
  • horizontal alignment
  • text banner at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of two human faces positioned side-by-side, both smiling. Left face has light skin tone and visible eyes; right face shows partial facial features including an eye and mouth. Both have brown hair. Below the faces is a solid black rectangular banner containing white pixelated text reading 'Best Friends'. Background consists of blurred brown tones. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity with a black banner displaying 'Best Friends' text at the bottom.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • friendly
  • positive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best friends pixel art
  • two smiling faces banner
  • pixelated best friends text
  • brown hair smiling faces

Objects

  • black banner
  • brown hair

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two human faces

Visible Text

  • Best Friends

Visually Supported Entities

  • Best Friends text

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • side-by-side positioning
  • smiling expressions
  • light skin tone
  • brown hair
  • black banner
  • white text
  • 'Best Friends' text
  • pixelated rendering
  • blurred brown 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
20080502175432821267961
Archive entry
20080502175432821267961.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080502175432821267961.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080502175432821267961.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016