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Six distinct head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels in various colors

Six distinct head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels in various colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Composition

  • two
  • head-and-shoulders
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

Six head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a two-row grid. Top row left: light brown hair, white shirt, red text "Hal" above head. Top row middle: dark hair, white shirt, light blue text "Harry" left of head. Top row right: dark hair, gray jacket, green text "Layn" below head. Bottom row left: dark hair, blue-and-white striped shirt, yellow text "Louis" below head. Bottom row middle: brown hair, white shirt, purple text "Liam" below head. Bottom row right: empty gray panel. All portraits have pixelated rendering, visible compression artifacts, and solid backgrounds. Text labels are overlaid in distinct colors.

Description

  • Six distinct head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels in various colors

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Hal Harry Layn Louis Liam portraits
  • text labels young men
  • red light blue green yellow purple text
  • white shirt blue striped shirt gray jacket
  • pixelated compression artifacts

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Style

  • text-overlaid

Visible Text

  • Hal
  • Harry
  • Layn
  • Louis
  • Liam

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  • Layn
  • Louis
  • Liam

Wordwall

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  • gray jacket
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  • light blue text
  • green text
  • yellow text
  • purple text
  • solid backgrounds
  • pixelated rendering
  • compression artifacts
  • text labels

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201206250754111147743486
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
377d226a1b870894
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 06:23 UTC
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8860
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Six distinct head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels in various colors

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:40 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Dense Caption

Six head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a two-row grid. Top row left: light brown hair, white shirt, red text "Hal" above head. Top row middle: dark hair, white shirt, light blue text "Harry" left of head. Top row right: dark hair, gray jacket, green text "Layn" below head. Bottom row left: dark hair, blue-and-white striped shirt, yellow text "Louis" below head. Bottom row middle: brown hair, white shirt, purple text "Liam" below head. Bottom row right: empty gray panel. All portraits have pixelated rendering, visible compression artifacts, and solid backgrounds. Text labels are overlaid in distinct colors.

Description

  • Six distinct head-and-shoulders portraits of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels in various colors

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

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  • green text
  • yellow text
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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
201206250754111147743486
Archive entry
201206250754111147743486.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#201206250754111147743486.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201206250754111147743486.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016