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Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style

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Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style

Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five portraits
  • side profiles
  • front-facing

Dense Caption

Top-left: orange spiky hair, blue eyes, side profile. Top-middle: dark hair tied back, eye patch over right eye, side profile. Top-right: silver hair, side profile. Bottom-left: blue hair, side profile. Bottom-middle: pink hair, front-facing. All characters have stylized anime features with visible pixelation. Backgrounds are solid or light gradient. No text or props visible. Pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080718142323983141301
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character portraits
  • pixel art
  • orange blue silver pink hair
  • eye patch anime
  • anime side profiles
  • anime front-facing
  • pixelated character faces
  • anime style

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Five anime-style character portraits in a grid layout, each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: anime style grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art grid

Subjects

  • human faces

Wordwall

  • anime portraits
  • pixel art
  • orange hair
  • eye patch
  • silver hair
  • blue hair
  • pink hair
  • side profiles
  • front-facing
  • solid backgrounds
  • limited color palette
  • stylized features
  • no text
  • no props
  • pixelated rendering
  • 2D animation
  • character faces
  • hair colors
  • anime style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080718142323983141301
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10 KB
Motion
Animated (5 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 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
3a79b02d397c7c4a
SHA-256
3a79b02d397c7c4a975af0183674e8b7974dd9b2859e4471bc9ce4dff5da2bde
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 21:15 UTC
Run
1278
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.023040

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July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
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Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,044 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 753

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
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  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anime characters (subject, 0.80)
  • hair (subject, 0.80)
  • human faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • silver
  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • five portraits
  • side profiles
  • front-facing

Dense Caption

Top-left: orange spiky hair, blue eyes, side profile. Top-middle: dark hair tied back, eye patch over right eye, side profile. Top-right: silver hair, side profile. Bottom-left: blue hair, side profile. Bottom-middle: pink hair, front-facing. All characters have stylized anime features with visible pixelation. Backgrounds are solid or light gradient. No text or props visible. Pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Five anime-style character portraits in a , each with distinct hair colors and features, rendered in pixelated 2D animation style

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080718142323983141301
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • serious

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  • pixel art
  • orange blue silver pink hair
  • eye patch anime
  • anime side profiles
  • anime front-facing
  • pixelated character faces
  • anime style

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: anime style grid
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  • pixel art
  • 2D animation

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  • human faces
  • hair

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  • pixel art
  • orange hair
  • eye patch
  • silver hair
  • blue hair
  • pink hair
  • side profiles
  • front-facing
  • solid backgrounds
  • limited color palette
  • stylized features
  • no text
  • no props
  • pixelated rendering
  • 2D animation
  • character faces
  • hair colors
  • anime style
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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
20080718142323983141301
Archive entry
20080718142323983141301.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080718142323983141301.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080718142323983141301.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016