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Three pixelated character faces with distinct expressions and colors against a dark background, one holding a light blue object.

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Three pixelated character faces with distinct expressions and colors against a dark background, one holding a light blue object.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal arrangement of three heads
  • central negative space
  • foreground subjects on solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows three stylized character heads in a horizontal arrangement. The leftmost head has pale skin, large eyes, red lips, and brown hair; the middle head is pink-toned with closed eyes and purple accents; the rightmost head is white with gray features and dark hair. All faces are pixelated with visible dithering. A light blue object resembling a microphone or wand appears below the right face. The background is solid black. Colors include pale skin tones, red, brown, pink, purple, white, gray, and light blue.

Description

  • Three pixelated character faces with distinct expressions and colors against a dark background, one holding a light blue object.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 20080112132213173309030

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character heads red lips
  • three stylized faces pink purple white
  • light blue object black background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with visible pixelation

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

  • character heads with distinct expressions

Wordwall

  • three character heads
  • pale skin tone
  • red lips
  • brown hair
  • pink-toned head
  • closed eyes
  • purple accents
  • white head
  • gray features
  • dark hair
  • light blue object
  • black background
  • pixelated dithering

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080112132213173309030
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/13/13bab48337e554f4b1893824b23b77284cf696003fa648c93a2b609d7bac8e77.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
13bab48337e554f4
SHA-256
13bab48337e554f4b1893824b23b77284cf696003fa648c93a2b609d7bac8e77
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091996

OpenAI category scores

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Three pixelated character faces with distinct expressions and colors against a dark background, one holding a light blue object.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,134 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 745

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • stylized character art (style, 0.80)
  • character heads (subject, 0.80)
  • microphone like object (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pale skin tone
  • red
  • brown
  • pink
  • purple
  • white
  • gray
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal arrangement of three heads
  • central negative space
  • foreground subjects on solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows three stylized character heads in a horizontal arrangement. The leftmost head has pale skin, large eyes, red lips, and brown hair; the middle head is pink-toned with closed eyes and purple accents; the rightmost head is white with gray features and dark hair. All faces are pixelated with visible dithering. A light blue object resembling a microphone or wand appears below the right face. The background is solid black. Colors include pale skin tones, red, brown, pink, purple, white, gray, and light blue.

Description

  • Three pixelated character faces with distinct expressions and colors against a dark background, one holding a light blue object.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 20080112132213173309030

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character heads red lips
  • three stylized faces pink purple white
  • light blue object black background pixel art

Objects

  • microphone-like object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with visible pixelation

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
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  • pixelated
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  • character heads
  • microphone-like object

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Wordwall

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  • pale skin tone
  • red lips
  • brown hair
  • pink-toned head
  • closed eyes
  • purple accents
  • white head
  • gray features
  • dark hair
  • light blue object
  • black background
  • pixelated dithering
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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
20080112132213173309030
Archive entry
20080112132213173309030.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#20080112132213173309030.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080112132213173309030.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016