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Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear

Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • varied headwear and clothing

Dense Caption

Top-left: person wearing light green knit cap, long hair visible at sides. Top-right: child wearing white bucket hat, light-colored shirt, standing against textured background. Bottom-left: person with short dark hair tied back, neutral expression. Bottom-right: person wearing gray headband, pink top, smiling; face partially obscured by motion blur effect on right eye area.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200810160520461378340833
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • portraits
  • knit cap bucket hat headband
  • motion blur pink top
  • textured background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

  • motion blur effect on bottom-right portrait's right eye area
  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid portraits

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

  • person
  • child

Wordwall

  • light green knit cap
  • white bucket hat
  • short dark hair
  • gray headband
  • pink top
  • motion blur
  • textured background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810160520461378340833
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.1 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
31a313d5d2884942
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023009

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 763

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • bucket hat (object, 0.80)
  • headband (object, 0.80)
  • knit cap (object, 0.80)
  • shirt (object, 0.80)
  • top (object, 0.80)
  • grainy (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • child (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • standing

Colors

  • light green
  • white
  • gray
  • pink
  • dark brown
  • beige

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • varied headwear and clothing

Dense Caption

Top-left: person wearing light green knit cap, long hair visible at sides. Top-right: child wearing white bucket hat, light-colored shirt, standing against textured background. Bottom-left: person with short dark hair tied back, neutral expression. Bottom-right: person wearing gray headband, pink top, smiling; face partially obscured by motion blur effect on right eye area.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different individuals with varied clothing and headwear

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200810160520461378340833
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • portraits
  • knit cap bucket hat headband
  • motion blur pink top
  • textured background pixelated

Objects

  • knit cap
  • bucket hat
  • headband
  • shirt
  • top

Preprocessing Notes

  • motion blur effect on bottom-right portrait's right eye area
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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grainy

Subjects

  • person
  • child

Visually Supported Entities

  • person
  • child

Wordwall

  • light green knit cap
  • white bucket hat
  • short dark hair
  • gray headband
  • pink top
  • motion blur
  • textured background
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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
200810160520461378340833
Archive entry
200810160520461378340833.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810160520461378340833.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810160520461378340833.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016