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Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation.

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Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation.

Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation. 50×49 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side profiles
  • centered composition
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side profiles of human-like figures. The left figure has light-colored hair or head covering with horizontal stripes across the face area. The right figure features similar styling but includes additional darker vertical elements near the center. Both faces have minimal facial details, with faint indications of eyes and mouths using small colored pixels. The background consists of dark green and brown tones with pixelated transitions between colors. The overall resolution is low, creating a blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • u
  • buddyicons
  • non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two profiles pixel art
  • muted green beige faces
  • pixelated side-by-side figures
  • low-resolution stylized portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution static graphic with pixelation effects

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no source-derived claims are supported by visible pixels

Wordwall

  • two profiles
  • muted greens
  • beige faces
  • pixelated
  • horizontal stripes
  • vertical elements
  • minimal facial details

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×49 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a6a3789fe8e575c7406435fef94f91a8326e26000d3709a25cd92fbddce29c6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Archive ID
4a6a3789fe8e575c
SHA-256
4a6a3789fe8e575c7406435fef94f91a8326e26000d3709a25cd92fbddce29c6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072092

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927908onnx/unsafe0.072092onnx/nsfl0.039072onnx/nsfw0.033019
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,869 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,073, response 637

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • human like figures (subject, 0.80)
  • profiles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • beige
  • brown
  • dark green

Composition

  • side-by-side profiles
  • centered composition
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image shows two side-by-side profiles of human-like figures. The left figure has light-colored hair or head covering with horizontal stripes across the face area. The right figure features similar styling but includes additional darker vertical elements near the center. Both faces have minimal facial details, with faint indications of eyes and mouths using small colored pixels. The background consists of dark green and brown tones with pixelated transitions between colors. The overall resolution is low, creating a blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Two stylized faces in profile view with muted green and beige tones, set against a dark background with subtle pixelation.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • u
  • buddyicons
  • non-square icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • subtle

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • two profiles pixel art
  • muted green beige faces
  • pixelated side-by-side figures
  • low-resolution stylized portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a low-resolution static graphic with pixelation effects

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata only; no source-derived claims are supported by visible pixels

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • profiles
  • human-like figures

Wordwall

  • two profiles
  • muted greens
  • beige faces
  • pixelated
  • horizontal stripes
  • vertical elements
  • minimal facial details
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:16 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
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 (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / u
Alt
u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/u/u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060628212022id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / u
Alt
u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/u/u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060628212022id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u06eb0cba0a-IMBUDDY.gif