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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique facial features and background elements

Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique facial features and background elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: male figure with dark brown hair styled upward, light skin tone, smiling expression; top-right: male figure with curly blonde hair, light skin tone, neutral expression, blue garment visible on shoulder; bottom-left: male figure with short platinum-blonde hair, light skin tone, serious expression, dark blue background with partial white text 'the Doctor'; bottom-right: male figure with dark brown hair, light skin tone, smiling expression, red pixelated text 'Edward' at bottom. All portraits are cropped to show upper torso and head, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique facial features and background elements

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

Named Entities

  • the Doctor
  • Edward

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the Doctor Edward
  • Doctor Edward portraits
  • Edward the Doctor
  • smiling neutral serious Edward

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique facial features and background elements.
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: Edward the Doctor grid

Visible Text

  • the Doctor
  • Edward

Visually Supported Entities

  • the Doctor
  • Edward

Wordwall

  • dark brown hair
  • platinum-blonde hair
  • curly blonde hair
  • light skin tone
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • serious expression
  • blue garment
  • dark blue background
  • red text 'Edward'
  • white text 'the Doctor'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080521192452997717496
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
2a69e1d17c529d96
SHA-256
2a69e1d17c529d969fa0956a523adec17c92090bb498fd12026b365f2df97ed9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.117384

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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique facial features and background elements

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:51 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,433 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 672

Review tags

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  • serious expression (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
  • blue garment (object, 0.80)
  • dark blue background (object, 0.80)
  • cropped portraits (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • male figure (subject, 0.80)

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  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • serious expression

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • dark brown hair
  • platinum-blonde hair
  • curly blonde hair
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: male figure with dark brown hair styled upward, light skin tone, smiling expression; top-right: male figure with curly blonde hair, light skin tone, neutral expression, blue garment visible on shoulder; bottom-left: male figure with short platinum-blonde hair, light skin tone, serious expression, dark blue background with partial white text 'the Doctor'; bottom-right: male figure with dark brown hair, light skin tone, smiling expression, red pixelated text 'Edward' at bottom. All portraits are cropped to show upper torso and head, rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique facial features and background elements

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • serious
  • smiling

Named Entities

  • the Doctor
  • Edward

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Doctor Edward portraits
  • Edward the Doctor
  • smiling neutral serious Edward

Objects

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  • dark blue background

Preprocessing Notes

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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • the Doctor
  • Edward

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  • the Doctor
  • Edward

Wordwall

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  • platinum-blonde hair
  • curly blonde hair
  • light skin tone
  • smiling expression
  • neutral expression
  • serious expression
  • blue garment
  • dark blue background
  • red text 'Edward'
  • white text 'the Doctor'
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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
20080521192452997717496
Archive entry
20080521192452997717496.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080521192452997717496.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080521192452997717496.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016