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Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background.

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Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background.

Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal row of three figures
  • text positioned above and below figures

Dense Caption

The image shows three pixelated human-like figures standing side-by-side. The left figure wears pink clothing; the middle figure wears light gray clothing; the right figure wears white clothing. Yellow text overlays read 'joe' (top-left), 'kevin' (top-right, partially visible as 'kewin'), and 'nick' (middle-bottom). All figures have brown hair and neutral expressions. The background is dark with indistinct shapes suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three figures joe kevin nick text
  • pixelated human figures pink gray white clothing
  • yellow text labels dark background
  • joe kevin nick names

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality, causing pixelation

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

Visible Text

  • joe
  • kevin
  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • joe
  • kevin
  • nick

Wordwall

  • three pixelated figures
  • pink clothing on left figure
  • light gray clothing on middle figure
  • white clothing on right figure
  • yellow text 'joe'
  • yellow text 'kewin'
  • yellow text 'nick'
  • brown hair on all figures
  • neutral expressions
  • dark background with indistinct shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007092216332243181748
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37c131a9ddeb45278c02cf4da620e83253debda1ccecb2b9ef956f7f1442d760.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
37c131a9ddeb4527
SHA-256
37c131a9ddeb45278c02cf4da620e83253debda1ccecb2b9ef956f7f1442d760
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.162798

OpenAI category scores

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Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 03:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 735

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)
  • three human like figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • light gray
  • white
  • brown
  • dark background

Composition

  • horizontal row of three figures
  • text positioned above and below figures

Dense Caption

The image shows three pixelated human-like figures standing side-by-side. The left figure wears pink clothing; the middle figure wears light gray clothing; the right figure wears white clothing. Yellow text overlays read 'joe' (top-left), 'kevin' (top-right, partially visible as 'kewin'), and 'nick' (middle-bottom). All figures have brown hair and neutral expressions. The background is dark with indistinct shapes suggesting an indoor setting. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Three pixelated figures in a row with yellow text labels above and below, set against a dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three figures joe kevin nick text
  • pixelated human figures pink gray white clothing
  • yellow text labels dark background
  • joe kevin nick names

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality, causing pixelation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • three human-like figures

Visible Text

  • joe
  • kevin
  • nick

Visually Supported Entities

  • joe
  • kevin
  • nick

Wordwall

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  • pink clothing on left figure
  • light gray clothing on middle figure
  • white clothing on right figure
  • yellow text 'joe'
  • yellow text 'kewin'
  • yellow text 'nick'
  • brown hair on all figures
  • neutral expressions
  • dark background with indistinct shapes
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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
2007092216332243181748
Archive entry
2007092216332243181748.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#2007092216332243181748.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007092216332243181748.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016