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A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the right.

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A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the right.

A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the right. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split frame
  • side-by-side
  • left person
  • right emoji

Dense Caption

Left side: a person with light brown hair, fair skin, and a broad smile showing teeth; right side: a yellow circular emoji with a black outline, two rectangular eyes with white inner sections, and a curved downturned mouth; both sides are displayed side-by-side in a single frame; the image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts; the left side has a light brown background, the right side has a white background; the emoji's eyes are horizontally aligned and slightly angled, giving a squinted expression.

Description

A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person emoji
  • yellow emoji squinted mouth
  • split frame smiling emoji
  • pixelated emoji compression
  • fair skin yellow emoji

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static split-frame composition with no visible animation changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • light brown hair
  • fair skin
  • broad smile
  • yellow emoji
  • black outline
  • rectangular eyes
  • white inner eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • light brown background
  • white background
  • squinted expression

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100805204841510883339
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bae150c43e81b8568e981954b9c1eb99109debc78a7e262611fc4d747d803491.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
bae150c43e81b856
SHA-256
bae150c43e81b8568e981954b9c1eb99109debc78a7e262611fc4d747d803491
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 21:48 UTC
Run
15957
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 13:28 UTC
Run
1269
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 806

Review tags

  • downturning (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • squinting (action, 0.80)
  • fair (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • skeptical (mood, 0.80)
  • hair (object, 0.80)
  • compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • emoji (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • squinting
  • downturning

Colors

  • light brown
  • fair
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • split frame
  • side-by-side
  • left person
  • right emoji

Dense Caption

Left side: a person with light brown hair, fair skin, and a broad smile showing teeth; right side: a yellow circular emoji with a black outline, two rectangular eyes with white inner sections, and a curved downturned mouth; both sides are displayed side-by-side in a single frame; the image has a pixelated appearance with visible compression artifacts; the left side has a light brown background, the right side has a white background; the emoji's eyes are horizontally aligned and slightly angled, giving a squinted expression.

Description

A split image shows a smiling person with light brown hair on the left and a yellow emoji with squinted eyes and a downturned mouth on the 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy
  • skeptical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown hair person emoji
  • yellow emoji squinted mouth
  • split frame smiling emoji
  • pixelated emoji compression
  • fair skin yellow emoji

Objects

  • hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static split-frame composition with no visible animation changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts

Subjects

  • person
  • emoji

Wordwall

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  • fair skin
  • broad smile
  • yellow emoji
  • black outline
  • rectangular eyes
  • white inner eyes
  • downturned mouth
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • light brown background
  • white background
  • squinted expression
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20100805204841510883339
Archive entry
20100805204841510883339.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100805204841510883339.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100805204841510883339.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016