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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors.

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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors.

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered subject
  • text top-left
  • text top-center

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap with orange and yellow details, a blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, and dark hair visible beneath the cap. The left image has cyan 'alex' text in the top-left corner; the right image has white 'alex' text in the top-center. Both images show the person with a neutral expression, yellow-toned face, and red accents on the cheeks. The background is black with faint horizontal lines. The images are side-by-side with no visible motion changes.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • alex pixelated person
  • white cap blue hoodie cyan
  • cyan alex white alex
  • neutral expression yellow face
  • red cheek accents black background
  • pixelated side-by-side images
  • blue hoodie cyan inner layer
  • white cap orange yellow details

Visible Text

  • alex

Wordwall

  • white cap
  • blue hoodie
  • cyan inner layer
  • alex text
  • cyan text
  • white text
  • neutral expression
  • yellow face
  • red cheek accents
  • black background
  • horizontal lines
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • identical images
  • orange cap details
  • yellow cap details

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509190424654775385
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/9200061d8c16539abb06359e3ae35b94d88bba23327a94cc65ab381bfad74b76.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
9200061d8c16539a
SHA-256
9200061d8c16539abb06359e3ae35b94d88bba23327a94cc65ab381bfad74b76
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083844

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,302 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 734

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • blue
  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered subject
  • text top-left
  • text top-center

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap with orange and yellow details, a blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, and dark hair visible beneath the cap. The left image has cyan 'alex' text in the top-left corner; the right image has white 'alex' text in the top-center. Both images show the person with a neutral expression, yellow-toned face, and red accents on the cheeks. The background is black with faint horizontal lines. The images are side-by-side with no visible motion changes.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated images of a person wearing a white cap and blue hoodie with cyan inner layer, each labeled 'alex' in different colors.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white cap blue hoodie cyan
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  • neutral expression yellow face
  • red cheek accents black background
  • pixelated side-by-side images
  • blue hoodie cyan inner layer
  • white cap orange yellow details

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • alex

Wordwall

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  • blue hoodie
  • cyan inner layer
  • alex text
  • cyan text
  • white text
  • neutral expression
  • yellow face
  • red cheek accents
  • black background
  • horizontal lines
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • identical images
  • orange cap details
  • yellow cap details
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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
20090509190424654775385
Archive entry
20090509190424654775385.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509190424654775385.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509190424654775385.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016