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Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements

Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; six static images displayed in

Composition

  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top row left: person with dark curly hair in brown turtleneck against gray brick background. Top row middle: person with brown curly hair in white shirt against solid blue background. Top row right: person with brown curly hair in purple shirt against blurred background. Bottom row left: person with dark curly hair in white shirt with red object behind. Bottom row middle: group of people with one holding yellow sign reading 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' in red letters. Bottom row right: black and white shield-shaped emblem with anchor and 'B' letter. All images are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806211113271325224230

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign
  • anchor emblem
  • brown turtleneck person
  • purple shirt person
  • pixelated
  • celebratory sign
  • shield emblem
  • group with sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains multiple distinct views of different subjects
  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; six static images displayed in grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Visually Supported Entities

  • person
  • group
  • emblem

Wordwall

  • brown turtleneck
  • blue background
  • purple shirt
  • red object
  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY
  • shield emblem
  • anchor symbol
  • B letter
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806211113271325224230
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
9.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/1859b07dddeaa7e296ad0a89fefa8595e99a943f06b36c0c18a295905e960c0e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
1859b07dddeaa7e2
SHA-256
1859b07dddeaa7e296ad0a89fefa8595e99a943f06b36c0c18a295905e960c0e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096048

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930214onnx/unsafe0.096048onnx/nsfw0.055419onnx/nsfl0.040629
Enrichment records (1)
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Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,634 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 831

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • wearing (action, 0.80)
  • anchor (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • sign (object, 0.80)
  • turtleneck (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • emblem (subject, 0.80)
  • group (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • holding
  • wearing

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; six static images displayed in

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • purple
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top row left: person with dark curly hair in brown turtleneck against gray brick background. Top row middle: person with brown curly hair in white shirt against solid blue background. Top row right: person with brown curly hair in purple shirt against blurred background. Bottom row left: person with dark curly hair in white shirt with red object behind. Bottom row middle: group of people with one holding yellow sign reading 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' in red letters. Bottom row right: black and white shield-shaped emblem with anchor and 'B' letter. All images are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806211113271325224230

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral
  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign
  • anchor emblem
  • brown turtleneck person
  • purple shirt person
  • pixelated
  • celebratory sign
  • shield emblem
  • group with sign

Objects

  • turtleneck
  • shirt
  • sign
  • emblem
  • anchor

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains multiple distinct views of different subjects
  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated images arranged in a 2x3 grid showing various characters and symbols with visible text elements.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; six static images displayed in grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • gridded

Subjects

  • person
  • group
  • emblem

Visible Text

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Visually Supported Entities

  • person
  • group
  • emblem

Wordwall

  • brown turtleneck
  • blue background
  • purple shirt
  • red object
  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY
  • shield emblem
  • anchor symbol
  • B letter
  • pixelated
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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
200806211113271325224230
Archive entry
200806211113271325224230.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806211113271325224230.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806211113271325224230.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016