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Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation.

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Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation.

Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Source terms

Composition

  • close proximity
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

The image shows two human-like figures rendered in grayscale. The left figure has a light-colored head covering or hair, dark eyes, and a mouth; its right side is cropped out of view. The right figure displays a nose, eye, and part of a face with visible facial features including an ear. Both figures have dark clothing. Pixelation obscures parts of the image, particularly on the left side where details are indistinct. There are no discernible texts or symbols present.

Description

  • Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation title (gallery): 200803071342451770376914
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803071342451770376914

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803071342451770376914

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two grayscale figures
  • grayscale human-like faces
  • pixelated close proximity figures
  • dark clothing grayscale figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • two figures
  • facial features
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803071342451770376914
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 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 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
84232b1f89bc7d0a
SHA-256
84232b1f89bc7d0adb93bade2ba518a667724b2d53b7f0a1eaab840cdc427dac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070364

OpenAI category scores

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Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,563 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 754

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human like figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • close proximity
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

The image shows two human-like figures rendered in grayscale. The left figure has a light-colored head covering or hair, dark eyes, and a mouth; its right side is cropped out of view. The right figure displays a nose, eye, and part of a face with visible facial features including an ear. Both figures have dark clothing. Pixelation obscures parts of the image, particularly on the left side where details are indistinct. There are no discernible texts or symbols present.

Description

  • Two grayscale figures in close proximity, one with visible facial features and the other partially obscured by pixelation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation title (gallery): 200803071342451770376914
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200803071342451770376914

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803071342451770376914

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two grayscale figures
  • grayscale human-like faces
  • pixelated close proximity figures
  • dark clothing grayscale figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • human-like figures

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • two figures
  • facial features
  • dark clothing
  • pixelated
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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
200803071342451770376914
Archive entry
200803071342451770376914.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803071342451770376914.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803071342451770376914.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016