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Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right.

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Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right.

Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two figures close together
  • text upper right
  • cropped bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows two figures in grayscale tones. The figure on the left holds a large dark circular object. The figure on the right is positioned close to the left figure. In the upper right corner, blue text reads '11/8/09'. The background is a light gray gradient. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The figures are cropped at the bottom. The overall style is low-resolution and monochromatic except for the blue text.

Description

Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures grayscale 11/8/09
  • grayscale figures holding object
  • blue text 11/8/09
  • pixelated grayscale figures
  • grayscale figures text upper right
  • 11/8/09 blue text grayscale
  • grayscale figures cropped bottom
  • blue text light gray background

Visible Text

  • 11/8/09

Wordwall

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  • blue text
  • 11/8/09
  • light gray background
  • pixelated
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  • cropped bottom
  • monochromatic except text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911131853382118245575
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
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 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
9b74ea3402068a34
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,376 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 735

Review tags

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Actions

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  • holding

Colors

  • gray
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  • blue

Composition

  • two figures close together
  • text upper right
  • cropped bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows two figures in grayscale tones. The figure on the left holds a large dark circular object. The figure on the right is positioned close to the left figure. In the upper right corner, blue text reads '11/8/09'. The background is a light gray gradient. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The figures are cropped at the bottom. The overall style is low-resolution and monochromatic except for the blue text.

Description

Two figures in grayscale tones stand close together, one holding a large dark circular object, with blue text reading '11/8/09' in the upper right.

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

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Style

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Visible Text

  • 11/8/09

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  • monochromatic except text
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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
200911131853382118245575
Archive entry
200911131853382118245575.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911131853382118245575.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911131853382118245575.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016