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Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing

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Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing

Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head/shoulders cropping

Dense Caption

Top-left: anime character with dark gray hooded hair, smiling, wearing dark sleeveless top. Top-right: two anime characters; one with dark hair in white hooded garment, other with dark hair resting head on shoulder. Bottom-left: anime character with dark brown hair, neutral expression, dark clothing. Bottom-right: anime character with dark hair under dark hood, looking downward. All portraits have pixelated rendering, muted color palette, and cropped to head/shoulders.

Description

  • Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808241216471621618443
  • 20080824121648369597921

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character
  • hooded anime portraits
  • pixelated anime headshots
  • muted color anime portraits
  • anime characters smiling neutral
  • dark hooded anime characters
  • anime character headshots

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static grid of four portraits
  • quarantined description: Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique expressions and clothing.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: anime character grid headshots
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 anime character grid
  • quarantined retrieval: anime character 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: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • anime character portraits
  • hooded clothing
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • downward gaze
  • pixelated rendering
  • muted color palette
  • cropped head/shoulders
  • dark hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808241216471621618443
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080824121648369597921
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/22931f21ff0e55c92ddf1c7b5f49cc5fa9249caa40e8a8db0c2583fc32d8a439.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
22931f21ff0e55c9
SHA-256
22931f21ff0e55c92ddf1c7b5f49cc5fa9249caa40e8a8db0c2583fc32d8a439
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 21:23 UTC
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1309
Input
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Overall score
0.022720

OpenAI category scores

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July 26, 2026 at 04:04 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
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Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,845 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,153, response 834

Review tags

  • looking downward (action, 0.80)
  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • resting head (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • hooded garments (object, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
  • muted color palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • anime characters (subject, 0.80)
  • two characters in top right (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • resting head
  • looking downward
  • neutral expression

Colors

  • dark gray
  • dark brown
  • white
  • muted pink
  • blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • head/shoulders cropping

Dense Caption

Top-left: anime character with dark gray hooded hair, smiling, wearing dark sleeveless top. Top-right: two anime characters; one with dark hair in white hooded garment, other with dark hair resting head on shoulder. Bottom-left: anime character with dark brown hair, neutral expression, dark clothing. Bottom-right: anime character with dark hair under dark hood, looking downward. All portraits have pixelated rendering, muted color palette, and cropped to head/shoulders.

Description

  • Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and clothing

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200808241216471621618443
  • 20080824121648369597921

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral
  • intimate

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  • hooded anime portraits
  • pixelated anime headshots
  • muted color anime portraits
  • anime characters smiling neutral
  • dark hooded anime characters
  • anime character headshots

Objects

  • hooded garments

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static grid of four portraits
  • quarantined description: Four distinct anime-style character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique expressions and clothing.
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • anime
  • pixelated
  • muted color palette

Subjects

  • anime characters
  • two characters in top-right

Wordwall

  • anime character portraits
  • hooded clothing
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • downward gaze
  • pixelated rendering
  • muted color palette
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Full source records (2)

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
200808241216471621618443
Archive entry
200808241216471621618443.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808241216471621618443.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808241216471621618443.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080824121648369597921
Archive entry
20080824121648369597921.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080824121648369597921.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080824121648369597921.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016