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Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background.

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Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background.

Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • grouped figures
  • central figure prominent
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures arranged closely together. Central figure wears solid light blue short-sleeve shirt and dark necktie; leftmost figure has dark hair and dark top; rightmost figure wears dark sleeveless top with brown accents on chest; third figure from left partially obscured behind central figure. All faces are blurred, no discernible facial features visible. Background is indistinct grayish blur. Lower portion contains large light blue stylized text or symbol with white highlight on left side. Image rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four human figures pixelated
  • light blue shirt dark tie group
  • stylized blue symbol lower portion
  • blurred faces pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

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 figures (4)

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • light blue shirt
  • dark tie
  • blurred faces
  • indistinct background
  • stylized blue text
  • pixelated rendering
  • group pose

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071108162342182334631
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/09fc52c703a10fa1cb50f98b2018f7addfe2a7e1140b73570bec328f494dc505.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
09fc52c703a10fa1
SHA-256
09fc52c703a10fa1cb50f98b2018f7addfe2a7e1140b73570bec328f494dc505
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.321964

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,633 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 734

Review tags

  • grouping (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark clothing (object, 0.80)
  • dark tie (object, 0.80)
  • light blue shirt (object, 0.80)
  • stylized blue symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blurred faces (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • human figures 4 (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • grouping

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark gray
  • black
  • brown
  • white

Composition

  • grouped figures
  • central figure prominent
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures arranged closely together. Central figure wears solid light blue short-sleeve shirt and dark necktie; leftmost figure has dark hair and dark top; rightmost figure wears dark sleeveless top with brown accents on chest; third figure from left partially obscured behind central figure. All faces are blurred, no discernible facial features visible. Background is indistinct grayish blur. Lower portion contains large light blue stylized text or symbol with white highlight on left side. Image rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated image of four figures in a group pose, one wearing light blue shirt with dark tie, others in darker clothing against blurred background.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four human figures pixelated
  • light blue shirt dark tie group
  • stylized blue symbol lower portion
  • blurred faces pixel art

Objects

  • light blue shirt
  • dark tie
  • dark clothing
  • stylized blue symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality capture

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blurred faces

Subjects

  • human figures (4)

Visually Supported Entities

  • human figures (4)

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • light blue shirt
  • dark tie
  • blurred faces
  • indistinct background
  • stylized blue text
  • pixelated rendering
  • group pose
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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
20071108162342182334631
Archive entry
20071108162342182334631.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071108162342182334631.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071108162342182334631.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016