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Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background.

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Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background.

Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close proximity
  • partial cropping
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows two closely positioned human-like figures rendered in low-resolution pixels. The figure on the left has short light-colored hair and is wearing dark clothing; their face displays neutral expression with visible eyes and nose. The figure on the right appears partially cropped, showing only part of the head and shoulder area with lighter tones. Background consists of indistinct muted colors including shades of gray and blue. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080329171003613906431
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080329171003613906431

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080329171003613906431

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated figures close proximity
  • light hair dark clothing neutral expression
  • muted background partial cropping
  • pixelated low-resolution human-like figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • human-like figure

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light hair
  • dark clothing
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • muted background
  • partial cropping

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080329171003613906431
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c5bacfd12c74c7c226cd679948d7d4d047d911242efeb84b39e3f9c184d3d02b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
c5bacfd12c74c7c2
SHA-256
c5bacfd12c74c7c226cd679948d7d4d047d911242efeb84b39e3f9c184d3d02b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082518

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:20 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,789 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 741

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human like figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • light brown
  • dark blue

Composition

  • close proximity
  • partial cropping
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows two closely positioned human-like figures rendered in low-resolution pixels. The figure on the left has short light-colored hair and is wearing dark clothing; their face displays neutral expression with visible eyes and nose. The figure on the right appears partially cropped, showing only part of the head and shoulder area with lighter tones. Background consists of indistinct muted colors including shades of gray and blue. Pixelation creates a blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures in close proximity, one with light hair and dark clothing against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080329171003613906431
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080329171003613906431

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080329171003613906431

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two pixelated figures close proximity
  • light hair dark clothing neutral expression
  • muted background partial cropping
  • pixelated low-resolution human-like figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human-like figure

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light hair
  • dark clothing
  • neutral expression
  • pixelated
  • muted background
  • partial cropping
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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
20080329171003613906431
Archive entry
20080329171003613906431.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080329171003613906431.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080329171003613906431.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016