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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured.

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured.

Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • two figures in frame
  • left figure dominant

Dense Caption

The image shows two human faces rendered at low resolution. The left face is more prominent, displaying a wide open-mouthed smile revealing upper teeth; skin tone appears light brown. The right face is partially visible on the right edge of the frame, showing only part of an eye and cheek area with similar skin tone. Both figures have dark hair visible in the background. The image has heavy pixelation throughout, suggesting low resolution or compression artifacts.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured.

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

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two smiling faces pixelated
  • low resolution human faces
  • light brown skin teeth smile
  • partial face visible

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or heavily compressed, resulting in pixelation

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 faces
  • low-resolution pixels
  • broad smile
  • visible teeth
  • light brown skin
  • dark hair
  • partial visibility

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080330150417682873266
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/f8/f8d2a91d9b9ce7261daa83c13f2acb3962d1eee6ea4cd26d22a4171e5528c1ac.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
f8d2a91d9b9ce726
SHA-256
f8d2a91d9b9ce7261daa83c13f2acb3962d1eee6ea4cd26d22a4171e5528c1ac
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085521

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:38 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,718 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 676

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up
  • two figures in frame
  • left figure dominant

Dense Caption

The image shows two human faces rendered at low resolution. The left face is more prominent, displaying a wide open-mouthed smile revealing upper teeth; skin tone appears light brown. The right face is partially visible on the right edge of the frame, showing only part of an eye and cheek area with similar skin tone. Both figures have dark hair visible in the background. The image has heavy pixelation throughout, suggesting low resolution or compression artifacts.

Description

  • Two pixelated faces in close proximity, one with a broad smile and visible teeth, the other partially obscured.

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

  • celebrities

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two smiling faces pixelated
  • low resolution human faces
  • light brown skin teeth smile
  • partial face visible

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or heavily compressed, resulting in pixelation

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 face

Visually Supported Entities

  • human face

Wordwall

  • two faces
  • low-resolution pixels
  • broad smile
  • visible teeth
  • light brown skin
  • dark hair
  • partial visibility
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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
20080330150417682873266
Archive entry
20080330150417682873266.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#20080330150417682873266.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080330150417682873266.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016