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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center.

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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center.

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Colors

  • light skin tones

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • circular object held by left figure
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background. The figure on the left holds a circular object with a red center and a white outer ring. Both figures have dark hair and dark eyes. The figure on the left has a neutral expression with closed lips, while the figure on the right has a slightly open mouth. The image is highly pixelated with visible blocky artifacts. The circular object appears to be a prop held by the left figure. The background is solid dark color with no additional elements.

Description

  • Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090110144002777018207

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures dark background
  • circular object red center
  • pixelated figures
  • light skin tones dark hair

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light skin tones
  • dark background
  • circular object
  • red center
  • white outer ring
  • dark hair
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • slightly open mouth
  • pixelated
  • blocky artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090110144002777018207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db43fc47fc4a0c4813757b644a906b0b162f394154f33cf2797e848e550748d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
db43fc47fc4a0c48
SHA-256
db43fc47fc4a0c4813757b644a906b0b162f394154f33cf2797e848e550748d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081594

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 699

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • dark hair (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tones (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circular object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • two figures (subject, 0.80)

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  • light skin tones
  • dark background
  • red
  • white
  • dark hair
  • dark eyes

Composition

  • two figures side-by-side
  • circular object held by left figure
  • dark background

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Two pixelated figures with light skin tones against a dark background; one figure holds a circular object with a red center.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090110144002777018207

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • circular object red center
  • pixelated figures
  • light skin tones dark hair

Objects

  • circular object

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • two figures

Wordwall

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  • light skin tones
  • dark background
  • circular object
  • red center
  • white outer ring
  • dark hair
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • slightly open mouth
  • pixelated
  • blocky artifacts
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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
20090110144002777018207
Archive entry
20090110144002777018207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090110144002777018207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090110144002777018207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016