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Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red background.

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Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red background.

Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • two faces side-by-side
  • solid background color below
  • indistinct upper background

Dense Caption

The image shows two closely positioned human faces rendered in low-resolution pixels. The left face has light skin tone, short brown hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and a broad smile showing teeth; the right face also displays light skin tone, darker brown or black hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and a wide open-mouthed smile with teeth. Both faces are set against a solid bright red background that occupies the lower portion of the frame. The upper background contains indistinct pixelated shapes in shades of blue, gray, and white suggesting an outdoor sky or distant environment. The image has heavy pixelation throughout, indicating low resolution.

Description

Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red 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): 20080328172320833510331
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080328172320833510331

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080328172320833510331

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two smiling faces pixelated red background
  • human faces brown hair dark hair smiles teeth
  • low resolution digital art two people close-up
  • red background blue gray white sky

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • light skin tones
  • brown hair
  • darker brown/black hair
  • broad smiles
  • teeth visible
  • red background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328172320833510331
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/df/dff3b8dd0e771dd59b885faf67fa087bab6fd99247adb9c62fd8c524aefba981.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
dff3b8dd0e771dd5
SHA-256
dff3b8dd0e771dd59b885faf67fa087bab6fd99247adb9c62fd8c524aefba981
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 23:31 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000040

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Run
1258
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
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Overall label
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Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,339 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 839

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown black (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • dark brown/black
  • blue
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • close-up
  • two faces side-by-side
  • solid background color below
  • indistinct upper background

Dense Caption

The image shows two closely positioned human faces rendered in low-resolution pixels. The left face has light skin tone, short brown hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and a broad smile showing teeth; the right face also displays light skin tone, darker brown or black hair, visible eyes, nose, mouth, and a wide open-mouthed smile with teeth. Both faces are set against a solid bright red background that occupies the lower portion of the frame. The upper background contains indistinct pixelated shapes in shades of blue, gray, and white suggesting an outdoor sky or distant environment. The image has heavy pixelation throughout, indicating low resolution.

Description

Two pixelated faces in close-up, one with light skin and brown hair, the other with lighter skin and dark hair, both smiling against a red 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): 20080328172320833510331
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080328172320833510331

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080328172320833510331

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two smiling faces pixelated red background
  • human faces brown hair dark hair smiles teeth
  • low resolution digital art two people close-up
  • red background blue gray white sky

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • human face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • two human faces
  • light skin tones
  • brown hair
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  • broad smiles
  • teeth visible
  • red background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20080328172320833510331
Archive entry
20080328172320833510331.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#20080328172320833510331.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328172320833510331.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016