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A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space

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A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space

A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right layout

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: grayscale image of a person with dark hair holding hands near face; top-right panel: same person wearing blue cap and white tank top over patterned jacket against solid red background, arms extended in motion; bottom-left panel: shirtless person with swim cap standing by pool with another figure in background; bottom-right panel: empty gray space. All panels share identical pixel resolution.

Description

A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080816083744789235271

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person grayscale close-up red background
  • blue cap white tank top patterned jacket
  • shirtless swim cap pool backdrop
  • four empty gray space

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid empty gray space

Wordwall

  • grayscale close-up
  • red background
  • blue cap
  • swim cap
  • shirtless
  • pool backdrop
  • empty gray space

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080816083744789235271
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
14a0fcb4ab65582b
SHA-256
14a0fcb4ab65582b0293ad74a3544879e4db3a1b95ea6cc6b33ea1bce5d60086
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 11:12 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.125021

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
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A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,438 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 637

Review tags

  • arms extended in motion (action, 0.80)
  • holding hands near face (action, 0.80)
  • standing by pool (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • blue cap (object, 0.80)
  • patterned jacket (object, 0.80)
  • pool backdrop (object, 0.80)
  • swim cap (object, 0.80)
  • white tank top (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding hands near face
  • arms extended in motion
  • standing by pool

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white
  • red
  • blue
  • orange
  • light blue

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right layout

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: grayscale image of a person with dark hair holding hands near face; top-right panel: same person wearing blue cap and white tank top over patterned jacket against solid red background, arms extended in motion; bottom-left panel: shirtless person with swim cap standing by pool with another figure in background; bottom-right panel: empty gray space. All panels share identical pixel resolution.

Description

A four- shows a person in various poses: black-and-white close-up, colorful action pose with red background, shirtless swimmer, and empty gray space

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080816083744789235271

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person grayscale close-up red background
  • blue cap white tank top patterned jacket
  • shirtless swim cap pool backdrop
  • four empty gray space

Objects

  • blue cap
  • white tank top
  • patterned jacket
  • swim cap
  • pool backdrop

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid empty gray space

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale close-up
  • red background
  • blue cap
  • swim cap
  • shirtless
  • pool backdrop
  • empty gray space
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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
20080816083744789235271
Archive entry
20080816083744789235271.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080816083744789235271.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080816083744789235271.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016