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Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • evenly spaced figures
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Four figures in a row, left to right: first figure has short hair and dark clothing with light horizontal stripe; second figure has shoulder-length hair and dark top; third figure has long hair and light top; fourth figure has short hair and dark clothing. All figures are upright, facing forward. Background is solid light gray. Image is low-resolution, pixelated, monochrome. No visible text or symbols. Composition is centered horizontally with figures evenly spaced.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200812031532341230106120

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four figures monochrome pixelated
  • monochrome pixelated figures standing
  • four figures long hair short hair
  • monochrome figures horizontal row

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • four figures
  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • shoulder-length hair
  • long hair
  • short hair
  • dark clothing
  • light top
  • horizontal stripe
  • solid background
  • evenly spaced
  • facing forward
  • upright

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812031532341230106120
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0d/0d7ebe5c69c5885b7dc4f1945edffaf47af5dd30948e52dd69420d32ce70c4c3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
0d7ebe5c69c5885b
SHA-256
0d7ebe5c69c5885b7dc4f1945edffaf47af5dd30948e52dd69420d32ce70c4c3
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 22:12 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000605

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
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106
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Overall label
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Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,570 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 803

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • four figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • facing forward

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • evenly spaced figures
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Four figures in a row, left to right: first figure has short hair and dark clothing with light horizontal stripe; second figure has shoulder-length hair and dark top; third figure has long hair and light top; fourth figure has short hair and dark clothing. All figures are upright, facing forward. Background is solid light gray. Image is low-resolution, pixelated, monochrome. No visible text or symbols. Composition is centered horizontally with figures evenly spaced.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of four figures in a row, each with distinct hairstyles and clothing, standing against a plain 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 200812031532341230106120

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • monochrome pixelated figures standing
  • four figures long hair short hair
  • monochrome figures horizontal row

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • four figures

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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
200812031532341230106120
Archive entry
200812031532341230106120.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812031532341230106120.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812031532341230106120.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016