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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light brown hair and the other with dark hair, both wearing dark tops against a blurred background.

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light brown hair and the other with dark hair, both wearing dark tops against a blurred background.

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Composition

  • two faces
  • close proximity
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Two human faces occupy the frame in a close-up composition. The left face has light brown hair with visible strands and a light-colored top with a dark diagonal strap. The right face has dark hair and a dark top. Both faces show partial facial features including eyes, noses, and mouths. The background is indistinct with blurred light and dark areas. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style with visible blocky artifacts. No text or symbols are present. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, beige, black, and gray.

Description

Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light brown hair and the other with dark hair, both wearing dark tops against a blurred 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: 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 people pixelated
  • light brown dark hair
  • beige black gray tones
  • low-resolution close-up
  • dark tops pixelated
  • blurred background pixelated
  • partial facial features
  • beige tones dark straps

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • light brown hair
  • dark hair
  • dark tops
  • pixelated
  • close-up
  • blurred background
  • beige tones
  • black straps
  • brown tones
  • gray tones
  • low-resolution
  • blocky artifacts
  • partial facial features
  • light-colored top
  • dark diagonal strap

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080731130725762424287
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 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 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
a82bcb2abe90ea12
SHA-256
a82bcb2abe90ea1210c228c1179a91cd86d7607185e20a6b574f9b9656bded83
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000090

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 22:57 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light brown hair and the other with dark hair, both wearing dark tops against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,677 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 729

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • close up (style, 0.80)
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  • hair (subject, 0.80)
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  • two people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • two faces
  • close proximity
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

Two human faces occupy the frame in a close-up composition. The left face has light brown hair with visible strands and a light-colored top with a dark diagonal strap. The right face has dark hair and a dark top. Both faces show partial facial features including eyes, noses, and mouths. The background is indistinct with blurred light and dark areas. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated rendering style with visible blocky artifacts. No text or symbols are present. The overall color palette includes shades of brown, beige, black, and gray.

Description

Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with light brown hair and the other with dark hair, both wearing dark tops against a blurred 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • beige black gray tones
  • low-resolution close-up
  • dark tops pixelated
  • blurred background pixelated
  • partial facial features
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Objects

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  • hair

Style

  • pixelated
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  • close-up

Subjects

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  • faces
  • hair
  • tops

Wordwall

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  • dark tops
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  • black straps
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  • gray tones
  • low-resolution
  • blocky artifacts
  • partial facial features
  • light-colored top
  • dark diagonal strap
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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
20080731130725762424287
Archive entry
20080731130725762424287.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080731130725762424287.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080731130725762424287.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016