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A static buddy icon featuring a group of five young men in casual clothing with partial text overlays.

A static buddy icon featuring a group of five young men in casual clothing with partial text overlays. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal
  • centered
  • overlaid text

Dense Caption

The icon shows five young men standing closely together in a group pose. Four men wear dark clothing; one man wears a red shirt. They stand on a light-colored surface with a blurred background. Partial text overlays appear: 'smine9' in white letters on a black bar across the top, and 'eryth' in white letters on a black bar across the bottom. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A static buddy icon featuring a group of five young men in casual clothing with partial text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20120413104903141834946
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • five young men group
  • red shirt dark clothing
  • smine9 eryth text
  • pixelated low-resolution
  • casual clothing group pose
  • text overlays
  • light surface blurred background
  • young men standing together

Visible Text

  • smine9
  • eryth

Wordwall

  • five young men
  • group pose
  • casual clothing
  • red shirt
  • dark clothing
  • light surface
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
  • smine9
  • eryth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120413104903141834946
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
3eb54215697d759e
SHA-256
3eb54215697d759e99161dc13b6bd6ab3806f2e49bf4711fad08d75e30d8c06c
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 09:24 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
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A static buddy icon featuring a group of five young men in casual clothing with partial text overlays.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,022 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 652

Review tags

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  • light (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • dark
  • light
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal
  • centered
  • overlaid text

Dense Caption

The icon shows five young men standing closely together in a group pose. Four men wear dark clothing; one man wears a red shirt. They stand on a light-colored surface with a blurred background. Partial text overlays appear: 'smine9' in white letters on a black bar across the top, and 'eryth' in white letters on a black bar across the bottom. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A static buddy icon featuring a group of five young men in casual clothing with partial text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20120413104903141834946
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • five young men group
  • red shirt dark clothing
  • smine9 eryth text
  • pixelated low-resolution
  • casual clothing group pose
  • text overlays
  • light surface blurred background
  • young men standing together

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • group portrait

Subjects

  • five young men

Visible Text

  • smine9
  • eryth

Wordwall

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  • group pose
  • casual clothing
  • red shirt
  • dark clothing
  • light surface
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
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  • eryth
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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
20120413104903141834946
Archive entry
20120413104903141834946.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20120413104903141834946.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20120413104903141834946.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016