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Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above.

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Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above.

Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text strip above figures
  • light background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated penguin figures occupy the lower half of the image; the left penguin is slightly angled with its head turned left, while the right penguin stands upright facing forward. Both penguins have dark gray heads and feet with light gray bodies. Above them, a horizontal strip contains dark gray rectangular shapes on the left and a red pixelated text block on the right. The background is a light grayish-white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071121170836322148691

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated penguins
  • red text block
  • dark gray heads light gray bodies
  • left penguin angled right upright

Visible Text

  • red text block

Wordwall

  • two penguins
  • pixelated
  • dark gray heads
  • light gray bodies
  • red text block
  • gray rectangles
  • light background
  • left penguin angled
  • right penguin upright

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071121170836322148691
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78861b3f78e9d203c25e6f227369fd2359e1b1d10b1ec9d96fdc057138d0d783.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
78861b3f78e9d203
SHA-256
78861b3f78e9d203c25e6f227369fd2359e1b1d10b1ec9d96fdc057138d0d783
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090184

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,365 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 721

Review tags

  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • penguins (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • text strip above figures
  • light background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated penguin figures occupy the lower half of the image; the left penguin is slightly angled with its head turned left, while the right penguin stands upright facing forward. Both penguins have dark gray heads and feet with light gray bodies. Above them, a horizontal strip contains dark gray rectangular shapes on the left and a red pixelated text block on the right. The background is a light grayish-white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two pixelated penguin figures stand side-by-side on a light background with red and gray text elements above.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071121170836322148691

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated penguins
  • red text block
  • dark gray heads light gray bodies
  • left penguin angled right upright

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • penguins

Visible Text

  • red text block

Wordwall

  • two penguins
  • pixelated
  • dark gray heads
  • light gray bodies
  • red text block
  • gray rectangles
  • light background
  • left penguin angled
  • right penguin upright
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:03 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20071121170836322148691
Archive entry
20071121170836322148691.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071121170836322148691.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071121170836322148691.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016