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A four- shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty

A four- shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with four distinct

Composition

  • four
  • top-left quadrant
  • top-right quadrant
  • bottom-left quadrant
  • bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: a person with short dark hair smiles broadly showing teeth against a blue background; eyes are open. Top-right quadrant: the same person looks downward with eyes closed wearing a black jacket over a white shirt against a light background. Bottom-left quadrant: the person holds a microphone near their mouth in front of a dark blue background, appearing to sing or speak. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A four- shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four person smiling
  • person holding microphone blue background
  • black jacket white shirt eyes closed
  • microphone dark blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: static image with four distinct panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid person smiling

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • four
  • short dark hair
  • broad smile
  • eyes open
  • blue background
  • looking down
  • eyes closed
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • microphone
  • dark blue background
  • singing pose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804190643322105413801
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.3 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 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
36778ecc25afb0bf
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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A four- shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,558 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 622

Review tags

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  • looking down (action, 0.80)
  • singing (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
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  • performing (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling
  • looking down
  • holding microphone
  • singing

Animation

  • static image with four distinct

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • dark blue

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  • four
  • top-left quadrant
  • top-right quadrant
  • bottom-left quadrant
  • bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: a person with short dark hair smiles broadly showing teeth against a blue background; eyes are open. Top-right quadrant: the same person looks downward with eyes closed wearing a black jacket over a white shirt against a light background. Bottom-left quadrant: the person holds a microphone near their mouth in front of a dark blue background, appearing to sing or speak. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A four- shows a person in different poses: smiling with eyes open, looking down with closed eyes, singing into a microphone, and an empty

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

  • happy
  • contemplative
  • performing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four person smiling
  • person holding microphone blue background
  • black jacket white shirt eyes closed
  • microphone dark blue background

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

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  • short dark hair
  • broad smile
  • eyes open
  • blue background
  • looking down
  • eyes closed
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • microphone
  • dark blue background
  • singing pose
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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
200804190643322105413801
Archive entry
200804190643322105413801.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804190643322105413801.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804190643322105413801.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016