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Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them.

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Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them.

Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two figures
  • centered speech bubble
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Two human figures rendered in low-resolution pixel art. Left figure has dark hair, light skin, and a tilted head with eyes closed. Right figure has dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. Both wear dark tops. Background is a gradient from dark gray to light gray. A white speech bubble shape is positioned between the figures. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070902081723599568615
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people pixel art
  • speech bubble gradient background
  • low resolution dark clothing
  • closed eyes neutral expression

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • speech bubble
  • gradient background
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902081723599568615
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/7a/7ac29ed952ebee710dc65e85974fc9153b464259c5238ead6a2736dd2e9cab15.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
7ac29ed952ebee71
SHA-256
7ac29ed952ebee710dc65e85974fc9153b464259c5238ead6a2736dd2e9cab15
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1067
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071576

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,907 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 786

Review tags

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  • speaking (action, 0.80)
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  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • looking
  • speaking

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • light brown

Composition

  • two figures
  • centered speech bubble
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Two human figures rendered in low-resolution pixel art. Left figure has dark hair, light skin, and a tilted head with eyes closed. Right figure has dark hair, light skin, and a neutral expression. Both wear dark tops. Background is a gradient from dark gray to light gray. A white speech bubble shape is positioned between the figures. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in dark clothing against a gradient background with a white speech bubble between them.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070902081723599568615
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two people pixel art
  • speech bubble gradient background
  • low resolution dark clothing
  • closed eyes neutral expression

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two people

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • pixelated
  • dark clothing
  • speech bubble
  • gradient background
  • closed eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark hair
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070902081723599568615
Archive entry
20070902081723599568615.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902081723599568615.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902081723599568615.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016