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Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red background.

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Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red background.

Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • upper body crop
  • text overlaid on figures

Dense Caption

Left figure: dark hair, black background, hand near face, white text "Fue" overlaid. Right figure: light brown hair, red background, hand raised to head, white text "rA" overlaid. Both figures have pixelated rendering, visible pixelation in hair and clothing textures. Left figure wears dark clothing with red accents. Right figure wears light-colored sleeveless top. Text is bold, blocky, white with black outline. Backgrounds are solid color with no additional elements. Figures are cropped to upper body. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20091011044211423197880

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Fue rA text overlays
  • dark hair black background
  • light brown hair red background
  • pixelated figures side-by-side
  • hand near face hand raised
  • dark clothing red accents
  • light-colored sleeveless top
  • bold blocky text

Visible Text

  • Fue
  • rA

Wordwall

  • dark hair
  • black background
  • white text "Fue"
  • light brown hair
  • red background
  • white text "rA"
  • pixelated rendering
  • hand near face
  • hand raised to head
  • dark clothing with red accents
  • light-colored sleeveless top
  • bold blocky text
  • solid color backgrounds
  • upper body crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091011044211423197880
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
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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
c0660293fe4055f9
SHA-256
c0660293fe4055f92fc5f5e3cce1ccc96059d33e46f081c6bc5b28ca1756d889
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110388

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,606 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 830

Review tags

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  • two figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near face
  • hand raised to head

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • dark brown
  • light brown
  • dark clothing
  • light-colored top

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • upper body crop
  • text overlaid on figures

Dense Caption

Left figure: dark hair, black background, hand near face, white text "Fue" overlaid. Right figure: light brown hair, red background, hand raised to head, white text "rA" overlaid. Both figures have pixelated rendering, visible pixelation in hair and clothing textures. Left figure wears dark clothing with red accents. Right figure wears light-colored sleeveless top. Text is bold, blocky, white with black outline. Backgrounds are solid color with no additional elements. Figures are cropped to upper body. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated figures with overlaid text; left figure has dark hair and black background, right figure has light hair and red 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

Metadata Only Entities

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • bold blocky text

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  • solid backgrounds

Subjects

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Visible Text

  • Fue
  • rA

Wordwall

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  • light brown hair
  • red background
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  • hand near face
  • hand raised to head
  • dark clothing with red accents
  • light-colored sleeveless top
  • bold blocky text
  • solid color backgrounds
  • upper body crop
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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
20091011044211423197880
Archive entry
20091011044211423197880.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#20091011044211423197880.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091011044211423197880.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016