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Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds

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Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds

Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Top-left: grayscale portrait of person with dark hair tied back, wearing white shirt with black collar. Top-middle: person in white hooded garment, dark hair visible, wearing large silver headphones. Top-right: person with dark hair, light skin, blue eyes, pink lips. Bottom-left: person with brown hair under yellow headscarf, orange background. Bottom-middle: person in dark hooded garment, dark hat, smiling. Bottom-right: person with dark hair, wide eyes, open mouth showing teeth. All portraits are pixelated, cropped to head and shoulders, with varied color palettes and backgrounds.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811111659391738399949

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait white shirt
  • white hooded garment silver headphones
  • yellow headscarf orange background
  • dark hooded garment smiling
  • blue eyes pink lips
  • wide eyes open mouth teeth

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • white hooded garment
  • silver headphones
  • blue eyes
  • yellow headscarf
  • dark hooded garment
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth showing teeth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811111659391738399949
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
9.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
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 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
1252fcf56c77b1f9
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
1252
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.071640

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
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Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,623 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 764

Review tags

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  • showing teeth (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • wearing (action, 0.80)
  • hat (object, 0.80)
  • headphones (object, 0.80)
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  • hooded garment (object, 0.80)
  • color (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • wearing
  • looking
  • showing teeth

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • silver
  • blue
  • pink
  • orange
  • yellow
  • dark brown

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders crop

Dense Caption

Top-left: grayscale portrait of person with dark hair tied back, wearing white shirt with black collar. Top-middle: person in white hooded garment, dark hair visible, wearing large silver headphones. Top-right: person with dark hair, light skin, blue eyes, pink lips. Bottom-left: person with brown hair under yellow headscarf, orange background. Bottom-middle: person in dark hooded garment, dark hat, smiling. Bottom-right: person with dark hair, wide eyes, open mouth showing teeth. All portraits are pixelated, cropped to head and shoulders, with varied color palettes and backgrounds.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing a person with varied clothing and expressions against different backgrounds

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811111659391738399949

Mood

  • neutral
  • smiling
  • expressive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • white hooded garment silver headphones
  • yellow headscarf orange background
  • dark hooded garment smiling
  • blue eyes pink lips
  • wide eyes open mouth teeth

Objects

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  • headscarf
  • hat

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  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Style

  • pixelated
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  • color

Subjects

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Wordwall

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  • silver headphones
  • blue eyes
  • yellow headscarf
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  • wide eyes
  • open mouth showing teeth
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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
200811111659391738399949
Archive entry
200811111659391738399949.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811111659391738399949.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811111659391738399949.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016