Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds.

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Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds.

Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation

  • frame 0: neutral face with closed eyes; frame 1: open mouth speaking pose

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a blonde woman transitioning from neutral expression to speaking pose with mouth opening; minimal facial movement between frames

Composition

  • close-up portrait

Dense Caption

The image consists of two adjacent 50x50 pixel frames from an animated buddy icon. Both frames feature the same person with short, voluminous blonde curls and fair skin. In the left frame (frame 0), the subject has a neutral expression with closed eyes and slightly parted lips. In the right frame (frame 1), the subject's mouth is open wider in what appears to be mid-speech or laughter, while the eye position remains similar but may have subtle differences due to pixelation. The background of both frames is solid black, indicating transparency on a gray AOL IM interface. Pixelation and dithering are visible throughout, typical of low-resolution 1990s digital art. No text appears in either frame. The animation shows minimal facial movement between the two sampled frames: primarily mouth opening/closing with slight eye adjustment.

Description

Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds.

Identity Hypotheses

Marilyn Monroe | basis both | confidence 0.7 | evidence: iconic blonde curls, historical context of early internet icons referencing celebrities

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Chicago theme
  • movie character reference

Metadata Only Entities

  • ico_chicago08
  • MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
  • chicago movie icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde curly hair speaking face animation
  • pixelated two-frame buddy icon
  • AOL IM neutral to open mouth animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampledFrameCount 2 from sourceFrameCount 2, reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style depiction of celebrity figure, no nudity or sexual content

Source Metadata Interpretation

suggests Chicago-themed animation (ico_chicago08), possibly related to a movie or event; hints at celebrity reference but not confirmed by image alone

Visually Supported Entities

  • human figure with blonde curls

Wordwall

  • blonde curly hair
  • fair skin
  • neutral expression
  • open mouth
  • black background
  • pixelated image
  • two-frame animation
  • closed eyes frame 0
  • parted lips frame 0
  • wider mouth frame 1
  • subtle facial movement
  • low-resolution digital art
  • AOL IM buddy icon
  • frame 0 neutral face
  • frame 1 speaking face
  • solid black backdrop
  • dithering artifacts
  • pixelated skin tones

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
ico_chicago08
Category
icon / movies / imgs / ico chicago08
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:14 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / movies / chicago
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:35 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
7581
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:05 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02032
Category
buddyicons / movie / chicago
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:21 UTC

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs

Source title
buddysite-02032
Category
movie / chicago
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/ce/ced987ad0b7b8e76b10de98b5aae0dcb3a18905b85d53a26acda2087dcb6587b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
ced987ad0b7b8e76
SHA-256
ced987ad0b7b8e76b10de98b5aae0dcb3a18905b85d53a26acda2087dcb6587b
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 10:20 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085415

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927383onnx/unsafe0.085415onnx/nsfw0.049426onnx/nsfl0.035990
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
16,384 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,053, response 936

Review tags

  • black background (color, 1.00)
  • two frame animation (animation, 0.95)
  • blonde curly hair (subject, 0.95)
  • neutral expression (action, 0.90)
  • pixel art (style, 0.90)
  • speaking pose (action, 0.85)
  • aol im buddy icon (medium, 0.80)

Actions

  • neutral expression
  • speaking/loud mouth opening

Animation

  • frame 0: neutral face with closed eyes; frame 1: open mouth speaking pose

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a blonde woman transitioning from neutral expression to speaking pose with mouth opening; minimal facial movement between frames

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • beige
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up portrait

Dense Caption

The image consists of two adjacent 50x50 pixel frames from an animated buddy icon. Both frames feature the same person with short, voluminous blonde curls and fair skin. In the left frame (frame 0), the subject has a neutral expression with closed eyes and slightly parted lips. In the right frame (frame 1), the subject's mouth is open wider in what appears to be mid-speech or laughter, while the eye position remains similar but may have subtle differences due to pixelation. The background of both frames is solid black, indicating transparency on a gray AOL IM interface. Pixelation and dithering are visible throughout, typical of low-resolution 1990s digital art. No text appears in either frame. The animation shows minimal facial movement between the two sampled frames: primarily mouth opening/closing with slight eye adjustment.

Description

Two side-by-side frames of a pixelated animated icon showing a blonde woman with curly hair in different facial expressions against black backgrounds.

Identity Hypotheses

Marilyn Monroe | basis both | confidence 0.7 | evidence: iconic blonde curls, historical context of early internet icons referencing celebrities

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Chicago theme
  • movie character reference

Metadata Only Entities

  • ico_chicago08
  • MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
  • chicago movie icon

Mood

  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blonde curly hair speaking face animation
  • pixelated two-frame buddy icon
  • AOL IM neutral to open mouth animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1, sampledFrameCount 2 from sourceFrameCount 2, reviewImagePixels 512x256

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon-style depiction of celebrity figure, no nudity or sexual content

Source Metadata Interpretation

suggests Chicago-themed animation (ico_chicago08), possibly related to a movie or event; hints at celebrity reference but not confirmed by image alone

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • blonde woman
  • curly hair figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • human figure with blonde curls

Wordwall

  • blonde curly hair
  • fair skin
  • neutral expression
  • open mouth
  • black background
  • pixelated image
  • two-frame animation
  • closed eyes frame 0
  • parted lips frame 0
  • wider mouth frame 1
  • subtle facial movement
  • low-resolution digital art
  • AOL IM buddy icon
  • frame 0 neutral face
  • frame 1 speaking face
  • solid black backdrop
  • dithering artifacts
  • pixelated skin tones
Raw JSON
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  "denseCaption": "The image consists of two adjacent 50x50 pixel frames from an animated buddy icon. Both frames feature the same person with short, voluminous blonde curls and fair skin. In the left frame (frame 0), the subject has a neutral expression with closed eyes and slightly parted lips. In the right frame (frame 1), the subject\u0027s mouth is open wider in what appears to be mid-speech or laughter, while the eye position remains similar but may have subtle differences due to pixelation. The background of both frames is solid black, indicating transparency on a gray AOL IM interface. Pixelation and dithering are visible throughout, typical of low-resolution 1990s digital art. No text appears in either frame. The animation shows minimal facial movement between the two sampled frames: primarily mouth opening/closing with slight eye adjustment.",
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    "fair skin",
    "neutral expression",
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  ],
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    "Chicago theme",
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  ],
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  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
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  "needsManualReview": false,
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    "AOL IM neutral to open mouth animation"
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Full source records (5)

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / movies / imgs / ico chicago08
Alt
ico_chicago08
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / movies / chicago
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1097851586_293107101.gif | chicago | animated | myoldicons id 178237
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:35 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
7581
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs (wayback-buddysite-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive direct asset recovery from a dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal
Category
buddyicons / movie / chicago
Alt
buddysite-02032
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM buddy-icon portal spanning animals, anime, brands, birthdays, fandom, moods, relationships, sports, and other period identity graphics

Wayback Buddysite AIM Buddy Icon GIFs (wayback-buddysite-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Categorized AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive direct asset recovery from a dedicated AIM buddy-icon portal
Category
movie / chicago
Alt
buddysite-02032
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 06:12 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large categorized AIM buddy-icon portal spanning animals, anime, brands, birthdays, fandom, moods, relationships, sports, and other period identity graphics