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Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black background.

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Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black background.

Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered figures
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side, low-resolution grayscale figures. Both have large circular eyes with small pupils, rounded ears, and smooth oval faces. The figure on the left has visible shoulder-length hair or head covering extending below the chin. The right figure's hair is shorter and appears to be styled upward. Both wear dark clothing that blends into the black background. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figures black background
  • two side-by-side cartoon faces
  • pixelated grayscale anime-style characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080819142726599654441

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • large circular eyes
  • rounded ears
  • smooth oval faces
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080819142726599654441
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 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 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
b5d9a08d21e617ad
SHA-256
b5d9a08d21e617ad8345464a960edc92f34e16e04898fcf498d9cc9e9f970271
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:24 UTC
Run
1099
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104024

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,773 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 700

Review tags

  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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  • clothing (subject, 0.80)
  • ears (subject, 0.80)
  • faces (subject, 0.80)
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  • hair (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • grayscale
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered figures
  • minimal background

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side, low-resolution grayscale figures. Both have large circular eyes with small pupils, rounded ears, and smooth oval faces. The figure on the left has visible shoulder-length hair or head covering extending below the chin. The right figure's hair is shorter and appears to be styled upward. Both wear dark clothing that blends into the black background. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in grayscale with simplified facial features and rounded ears against a black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim
  • anime
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated figures black background
  • two side-by-side cartoon faces
  • pixelated grayscale anime-style characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

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  • pixelated
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  • simplified
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • figures
  • faces
  • ears
  • hair
  • clothing

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080819142726599654441

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • large circular eyes
  • rounded ears
  • smooth oval faces
  • dark clothing
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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
20080819142726599654441
Archive entry
20080819142726599654441.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080819142726599654441.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080819142726599654441.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016