Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Permanent icon record

Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Two stylized human faces rendered in grayscale pixel art, positioned side-by-side against a solid black background. Left face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Right face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Both faces have simplified features including rounded eyes, small noses, and minimal shading. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering. The faces are centered horizontally with equal spacing between them. The background is uniformly dark with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200908051828001283006388
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two faces grayscale pixel art
  • neutral expressions closed eyes
  • side-by-side black background
  • low resolution pixel art
  • grayscale cartoon faces
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • minimal shading faces
  • centered faces black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • grayscale palette

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • grayscale
  • pixel art
  • neutral expressions
  • closed eyes
  • side-by-side
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • simplified features
  • minimal shading

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908051828001283006388
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e1051d438db08e5f42b09354f1d2053f1751aaec4c98b6a0a1f02e7f3f27e7f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
6e1051d438db08e5
SHA-256
6e1051d438db08e5f42b09354f1d2053f1751aaec4c98b6a0a1f02e7f3f27e7f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111704

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.888296onnx/unsafe0.111704onnx/nsfw0.074891onnx/nsfl0.036813
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 735

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • two faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Two stylized human faces rendered in grayscale pixel art, positioned side-by-side against a solid black background. Left face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Right face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Both faces have simplified features including rounded eyes, small noses, and minimal shading. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering. The faces are centered horizontally with equal spacing between them. The background is uniformly dark with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200908051828001283006388
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two faces grayscale pixel art
  • neutral expressions closed eyes
  • side-by-side black background
  • low resolution pixel art
  • grayscale cartoon faces
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • minimal shading faces
  • centered faces black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixel art
  • grayscale palette

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • two faces

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • grayscale
  • pixel art
  • neutral expressions
  • closed eyes
  • side-by-side
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • simplified features
  • minimal shading
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "6e1051d438db08e5f42b09354f1d2053f1751aaec4c98b6a0a1f02e7f3f27e7f",
  "description": "Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.",
  "denseCaption": "Two stylized human faces rendered in grayscale pixel art, positioned side-by-side against a solid black background. Left face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Right face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Both faces have simplified features including rounded eyes, small noses, and minimal shading. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering. The faces are centered horizontally with equal spacing between them. The background is uniformly dark with no additional elements or textures.",
  "wordwall": [
    "two faces",
    "grayscale",
    "pixel art",
    "neutral expressions",
    "closed eyes",
    "side-by-side",
    "black background",
    "low resolution",
    "simplified features",
    "minimal shading"
  ],
  "visibleText": [],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "two faces"
  ],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "white",
    "gray"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "cartoon"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "side-by-side",
    "centered",
    "symmetrical"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "neutral"
  ],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "low-resolution pixel art",
    "grayscale palette"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
    "provenance era: 2007",
    "provenance era: 2016",
    "provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)",
    "provenance collection-attribute: aim",
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: anime",
    "provenance topic-coverage: celebrities",
    "provenance topic-coverage: games",
    "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
    "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
  ],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "provenance topic-coverage: anime",
    "provenance topic-coverage: celebrities",
    "provenance topic-coverage: games",
    "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
    "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "200908051828001283006388",
    "franksicons",
    "2007-2016"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "two faces grayscale pixel art",
    "neutral expressions closed eyes",
    "side-by-side black background",
    "low resolution pixel art",
    "grayscale cartoon faces",
    "symmetrical pixel art",
    "minimal shading faces",
    "centered faces black background"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "two faces",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: two faces"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cartoon",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cartoon"
    },
    {
      "tag": "neutral",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: neutral"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "6e1051d438db08e5f42b09354f1d2053f1751aaec4c98b6a0a1f02e7f3f27e7f",
        "description": "Two grayscale cartoon faces with neutral expressions, side-by-side on a dark background, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.",
        "denseCaption": "Two stylized human faces rendered in grayscale pixel art, positioned side-by-side against a solid black background. Left face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Right face shows a neutral expression with closed eyes and a straight mouth. Both faces have simplified features including rounded eyes, small noses, and minimal shading. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with visible pixelation and blocky rendering. The faces are centered horizontally with equal spacing between them. The background is uniformly dark with no additional elements or textures.",
        "wordwall": [
          "two faces",
          "grayscale",
          "pixel art",
          "neutral expressions",
          "closed eyes",
          "side-by-side",
          "black background",
          "low resolution",
          "simplified features",
          "minimal shading"
        ],
        "visibleText": [],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "two faces"
        ],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "white",
          "gray"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "cartoon"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "side-by-side",
          "centered",
          "symmetrical"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "neutral"
        ],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [
          "low-resolution pixel art",
          "grayscale palette"
        ],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
          "provenance era: 2007",
          "provenance era: 2016",
          "provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)",
          "provenance collection-attribute: aim",
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: anime",
          "provenance topic-coverage: celebrities",
          "provenance topic-coverage: games",
          "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
          "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
        ],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "provenance topic-coverage: anime",
          "provenance topic-coverage: celebrities",
          "provenance topic-coverage: games",
          "provenance topic-coverage: holidays",
          "provenance topic-coverage: humor"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "200908051828001283006388",
          "franksicons",
          "2007-2016"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "two faces grayscale pixel art",
          "neutral expressions closed eyes",
          "side-by-side black background",
          "low resolution pixel art",
          "grayscale cartoon faces",
          "symmetrical pixel art",
          "minimal shading faces",
          "centered faces black background"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200908051828001283006388
Archive entry
200908051828001283006388.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908051828001283006388.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908051828001283006388.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016