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Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background.

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Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background.

Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • horizontal alignment

Dense Caption

The image shows three pixelated human-like figures side-by-side. The left figure has light-colored hair or head covering and wears a light top. The middle figure has short dark hair and a dark outfit. The right figure has light hair, glasses, and a white shirt. All faces are rendered with low-resolution grayscale pixels showing basic facial structures without detailed features. The background is uniformly dark gray.

Description

  • Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711120713532080616928

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three pixelated figures grayscale
  • grayscale human-like figures side-by-side
  • pixelated dark background three individuals
  • glasses white shirt dark outfit

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • light top
  • dark outfit
  • white shirt
  • glasses

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711120713532080616928
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC

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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/05/05cf3c2a10a4f7996bfb09205da77b2bb2b13a99fc7ca00fefd39b20926b6945.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 UTC
Archive ID
05cf3c2a10a4f799
SHA-256
05cf3c2a10a4f7996bfb09205da77b2bb2b13a99fc7ca00fefd39b20926b6945
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:30 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083642

OpenAI category scores

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Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 603

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • human like figures (subject, 0.80)
  • three individuals (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • horizontal alignment

Dense Caption

The image shows three pixelated human-like figures side-by-side. The left figure has light-colored hair or head covering and wears a light top. The middle figure has short dark hair and a dark outfit. The right figure has light hair, glasses, and a white shirt. All faces are rendered with low-resolution grayscale pixels showing basic facial structures without detailed features. The background is uniformly dark gray.

Description

  • Three grayscale figures in a row, each with distinct facial features and clothing styles against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711120713532080616928

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three pixelated figures grayscale
  • grayscale human-like figures side-by-side
  • pixelated dark background three individuals
  • glasses white shirt dark outfit

Objects

  • glasses

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human-like figures
  • three individuals

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • dark background
  • light top
  • dark outfit
  • white shirt
  • glasses
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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
200711120713532080616928
Archive entry
200711120713532080616928.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:56 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#200711120713532080616928.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711120713532080616928.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016