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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture.

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Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture.

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Colors

  • light skin tones

Composition

  • central figures
  • black background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background. The figure on the left has short hair with green and brown tones and a light-colored garment. The figure on the right has short hair with green and brown tones and a light-colored garment. Both figures have closed eyes and a slight smile. The figure on the left has their right hand raised in a gesture. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending. The background is solid black. The figures are positioned centrally in the frame.

Description

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711291646021536013430

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures pixelated black background
  • hand raised closed eyes
  • light skin tones green brown hair
  • buddy icon pixelated figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
  • dithering visible

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

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light skin tones
  • short hair
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • hand raised
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • green brown hair
  • light garment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711291646021536013430
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
eae4da239f535a4f
SHA-256
eae4da239f535a4fc094dc9a0a9d3461386f4b7536d9afba2335f948105f492e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,144 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 801

Review tags

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  • pose (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • intimate (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • two figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pose
  • hand raised

Colors

  • black
  • light skin tones
  • green
  • brown
  • light garment color

Composition

  • central figures
  • black background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background. The figure on the left has short hair with green and brown tones and a light-colored garment. The figure on the right has short hair with green and brown tones and a light-colored garment. Both figures have closed eyes and a slight smile. The figure on the left has their right hand raised in a gesture. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending. The background is solid black. The figures are positioned centrally in the frame.

Description

Two pixelated figures with light skin tones and short hair pose closely together against a black background, one figure's hand raised in a gesture.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711291646021536013430

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • intimate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two figures pixelated black background
  • hand raised closed eyes
  • light skin tones green brown hair
  • buddy icon pixelated figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two figures

Wordwall

  • two figures
  • light skin tones
  • short hair
  • closed eyes
  • slight smile
  • hand raised
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • green brown hair
  • light garment
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:46 UTC
Run
53
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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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
200711291646021536013430
Archive entry
200711291646021536013430.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200711291646021536013430.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711291646021536013430.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016