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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background.

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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background.

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Source terms

Composition

  • two figures
  • black background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated human figures with light skin tones occupy the frame. The figure on the left wears a brown garment and holds a green, bottle-shaped object. The figure on the right wears a garment with pixelated patterns in cyan, yellow, orange, and pink. Both figures have short hair. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures green bottle
  • brown garment cyan yellow orange pink patterns
  • pixelated black background
  • light skin short hair

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light skin
  • brown garment
  • green bottle
  • cyan yellow orange pink patterns
  • short hair
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281512421912750481
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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GIF
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48×48 pixels
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2.3 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 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
8c5fc8d5e0c1bcf9
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
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1281
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July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,633 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
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  • brown
  • green
  • cyan
  • yellow
  • orange
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • two figures
  • black background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated human figures with light skin tones occupy the frame. The figure on the left wears a brown garment and holds a green, bottle-shaped object. The figure on the right wears a garment with pixelated patterns in cyan, yellow, orange, and pink. Both figures have short hair. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation.

Description

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones, one holding a green object, the other with colorful pixelated patterns on their clothing against a dark background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures green bottle
  • brown garment cyan yellow orange pink patterns
  • pixelated black background
  • light skin short hair

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  • green bottle

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky rendering

Subjects

  • two figures

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light skin
  • brown garment
  • green bottle
  • cyan yellow orange pink patterns
  • short hair
  • black background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
52
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v5
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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
200708281512421912750481
Archive entry
200708281512421912750481.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708281512421912750481.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281512421912750481.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016