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Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors

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Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors

Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static four

Composition

  • four
  • white vertical lines on left
  • clouds in background

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: gray background with dark gray clouds, character with white hair, black cloak with red clouds, blue shoes, holding red-and-white staff. Top-right panel: tan background with brown clouds, character with black headband, black cloak with red clouds, orange circular objects in hands, white motion lines. Bottom-left panel: light green background with gray clouds, character with dark hair, black cloak with red clouds, red scarf, white mask-like face. Bottom-right panel: peach background with orange clouds, character with black cloak, orange mask, arms raised, 'TOBU' text in orange. All panels have white vertical lines on left edge.

Description

  • Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters with red clouds cloak
  • white hair and staff
  • orange mask and raised arms
  • TOBU text in peach background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image
  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate panels, each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; static four-panel grid.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • TOBU

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime characters
  • white-haired figure
  • masked figure
  • headband figure
  • orange-masked figure

Wordwall

  • white hair
  • black cloak with red clouds
  • red-and-white staff
  • tan background
  • brown clouds
  • black headband
  • orange circular objects
  • white motion lines
  • light green background
  • gray clouds
  • red scarf
  • white mask-like face
  • peach background
  • orange clouds
  • orange 'TOBU' text
  • white vertical lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807081154481133164430
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37fe1b0b7bf460319900e216cac1033c92d9d0c9b99ac8026ffcf63bedbbfe88.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
37fe1b0b7bf46031
SHA-256
37fe1b0b7bf460319900e216cac1033c92d9d0c9b99ac8026ffcf63bedbbfe88
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.099267

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.937495onnx/unsafe0.099267onnx/nsfw0.053486onnx/nsfl0.045781
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Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,716 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 919

Review tags

  • arms raised (action, 0.80)
  • holding circular objects (action, 0.80)
  • holding staff (action, 0.80)
  • mask like face (action, 0.80)
  • orange circular objects (object, 0.80)
  • red and white staff (object, 0.80)
  • red scarf (object, 0.80)
  • anime characters (subject, 0.80)
  • headband figure (subject, 0.80)
  • masked figure (subject, 0.80)
  • orange masked figure (subject, 0.80)
  • white haired figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding staff
  • holding circular objects
  • mask-like face
  • arms raised

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static four

Colors

  • gray
  • tan
  • light green
  • peach
  • black
  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • four
  • white vertical lines on left
  • clouds in background

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: gray background with dark gray clouds, character with white hair, black cloak with red clouds, blue shoes, holding red-and-white staff. Top-right panel: tan background with brown clouds, character with black headband, black cloak with red clouds, orange circular objects in hands, white motion lines. Bottom-left panel: light green background with gray clouds, character with dark hair, black cloak with red clouds, red scarf, white mask-like face. Bottom-right panel: peach background with orange clouds, character with black cloak, orange mask, arms raised, 'TOBU' text in orange. All panels have white vertical lines on left edge.

Description

  • Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate , each with distinct poses, clothing, and background 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • dynamic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters with red clouds cloak
  • white hair and staff
  • orange mask and raised arms
  • TOBU text in peach background

Objects

  • red-and-white staff
  • orange circular objects
  • red scarf
  • white motion lines
  • clouds

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image
  • quarantined description: Four pixel-art anime-style characters in separate panels, each with distinct poses, clothing, and background colors.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; static four-panel grid.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • anime
  • chibi

Subjects

  • anime characters
  • white-haired figure
  • masked figure
  • headband figure
  • orange-masked figure

Visible Text

  • TOBU

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime characters
  • white-haired figure
  • masked figure
  • headband figure
  • orange-masked figure

Wordwall

  • white hair
  • black cloak with red clouds
  • red-and-white staff
  • tan background
  • brown clouds
  • black headband
  • orange circular objects
  • white motion lines
  • light green background
  • gray clouds
  • red scarf
  • white mask-like face
  • peach background
  • orange clouds
  • orange 'TOBU' text
  • white vertical lines
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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
200807081154481133164430
Archive entry
200807081154481133164430.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807081154481133164430.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807081154481133164430.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016