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Four pixelated figures in dark clothing stand in a row against a light background with a faint gradient.

Four pixelated figures in dark clothing stand in a row against a light background with a faint gradient. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation present

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • four figures
  • light background

Dense Caption

Four distinct human figures in dark attire stand side-by-side in a horizontal row. The figures are rendered in grayscale with high pixelation. The leftmost figure has a rounded head shape. The second figure from the left has a more angular head shape. The third figure from the left has a head shape with a visible neck. The rightmost figure has a head shape with a visible neck and a slightly wider body. All figures have dark clothing and stand against a light background with a subtle gradient. The image is static with no visible motion or animation. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures in dark clothing stand in a row against a light background with a faint gradient.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070819134430410553788
  • 200709011054241483667499
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated figures
  • dark clothing grayscale
  • horizontal row light background
  • no text visible
  • static pixelated image
  • grayscale human figures
  • low-resolution figures
  • no facial features visible

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • dark clothing
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • horizontal row
  • light background
  • subtle gradient
  • no visible motion
  • high pixelation
  • distinct head shapes
  • no facial features visible
  • no props or symbols
  • no text visible
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070819134430410553788
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709011054241483667499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38c3da34724c93046c1900f44ac82523c37fae5fbfae63b9c5d78342ccf75627.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
38c3da34724c9304
SHA-256
38c3da34724c93046c1900f44ac82523c37fae5fbfae63b9c5d78342ccf75627
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000579

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four pixelated figures in dark clothing stand in a row against a light background with a faint gradient.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 681

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • human figures (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation present

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • four figures
  • light background

Dense Caption

Four distinct human figures in dark attire stand side-by-side in a horizontal row. The figures are rendered in grayscale with high pixelation. The leftmost figure has a rounded head shape. The second figure from the left has a more angular head shape. The third figure from the left has a head shape with a visible neck. The rightmost figure has a head shape with a visible neck and a slightly wider body. All figures have dark clothing and stand against a light background with a subtle gradient. The image is static with no visible motion or animation. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures in dark clothing stand in a row against a light background with a faint gradient.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070819134430410553788
  • 200709011054241483667499
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated figures
  • dark clothing grayscale
  • horizontal row light background
  • no text visible
  • static pixelated image
  • grayscale human figures
  • low-resolution figures
  • no facial features visible

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  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • human figures

Wordwall

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  • dark clothing
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • horizontal row
  • light background
  • subtle gradient
  • no visible motion
  • high pixelation
  • distinct head shapes
  • no facial features visible
  • no props or symbols
  • no text visible
  • static image
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Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:12 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
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
20070819134430410553788
Archive entry
20070819134430410553788.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070819134430410553788.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070819134430410553788.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 
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
200709011054241483667499
Archive entry
200709011054241483667499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200709011054241483667499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709011054241483667499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016