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Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features.

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Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features.

Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Source terms

Composition

  • 2x2 grid

Dense Caption

Top-left icon features red and yellow tones with green accents, depicting a stylized figure with flowing lines. Top-right icon uses green, pink, and white tones, showing a figure with a green headpiece and pink background. Bottom-left icon has red, black, and blue tones, displaying a figure with dark hair and a red face. Bottom-right icon combines blue, orange, and yellow tones, presenting a figure with blue hair and an orange face. All icons are static, pixelated, and arranged in a 2x2 grid with no visible text or animation.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated 2x2 grid stylized figures
  • red yellow green pixel art
  • green pink white pixel art
  • red black blue pixel art
  • blue orange yellow pixel art
  • static buddy icons
  • no text pixel icons
  • distinct color schemes

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  • 2x2 grid
  • pixelated
  • red/yellow/green
  • green/pink/white
  • red/black/blue
  • blue/orange/yellow
  • no text
  • static icons
  • stylized figures
  • distinct color schemes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080729152008947546770
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
0a63e220cae931b5
SHA-256
0a63e220cae931b5cb6bef5f4a67093d1f5f9d14bb78735402a5707ea921aba4
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 12:16 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
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Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 698

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • pink
  • black
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • 2x2 grid

Dense Caption

Top-left icon features red and yellow tones with green accents, depicting a stylized figure with flowing lines. Top-right icon uses green, pink, and white tones, showing a figure with a green headpiece and pink background. Bottom-left icon has red, black, and blue tones, displaying a figure with dark hair and a red face. Bottom-right icon combines blue, orange, and yellow tones, presenting a figure with blue hair and an orange face. All icons are static, pixelated, and arranged in a 2x2 grid with no visible text or animation.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and stylized features.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red yellow green pixel art
  • green pink white pixel art
  • red black blue pixel art
  • blue orange yellow pixel art
  • static buddy icons
  • no text pixel icons
  • distinct color schemes

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized

Subjects

  • stylized figures

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • red/yellow/green
  • green/pink/white
  • red/black/blue
  • blue/orange/yellow
  • no text
  • static icons
  • stylized figures
  • distinct color schemes
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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
20080729152008947546770
Archive entry
20080729152008947546770.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080729152008947546770.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080729152008947546770.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016