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Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: A person with dark hair and a dark shirt extends both hands forward against a white background; black rectangular label reads "joe<3". Top-right: A person with curly brown hair wears an orange headband and light-colored clothing against a blurred indoor background; black rectangular label reads "nick<3". Bottom-left: A close-up of a person with dark spiky hair against a white background; black rectangular label reads "kevin<3". Bottom-right: Three people stand together in casual attire against a white background, one raising a hand; stacked black labels read "peace", "love", and "& jonas<3".

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Identity Hypotheses

  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

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

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Named Entities

  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • joe nick kevin jonas peace love
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons
  • pixelated celebrity images

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with overlaid text labels.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • joe<3
  • nick<3
  • kevin<3
  • & jonas<3
  • peace
  • love

Visually Supported Entities

  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

Wordwall

  • joe<3
  • nick<3
  • kevin<3
  • & jonas<3
  • peace love
  • four people
  • pixelated images

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080513120947920108441
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
4a81d7642ee714d6
SHA-256
4a81d7642ee714d6f861a06a9c9227256434be7a87390500a0ae9c2cc0ebef0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121817

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Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,890 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 729

Review tags

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  • wears headband
  • close-up
  • stand together, raise hand

Colors

  • dark hair
  • orange
  • light-colored clothing
  • white background
  • black text labels

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: A person with dark hair and a dark shirt extends both hands forward against a white background; black rectangular label reads "joe<3". Top-right: A person with curly brown hair wears an orange headband and light-colored clothing against a blurred indoor background; black rectangular label reads "nick<3". Bottom-left: A close-up of a person with dark spiky hair against a white background; black rectangular label reads "kevin<3". Bottom-right: Three people stand together in casual attire against a white background, one raising a hand; stacked black labels read "peace", "love", and "& jonas<3".

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated images of young men arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Identity Hypotheses

  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

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

  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Named Entities

  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons
  • pixelated celebrity images

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Preprocessing Notes

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  • three people

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  • nick<3
  • kevin<3
  • & jonas<3
  • peace
  • love

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  • joe
  • nick
  • kevin
  • jonas

Wordwall

  • joe<3
  • nick<3
  • kevin<3
  • & jonas<3
  • peace love
  • four people
  • pixelated images
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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
20080513120947920108441
Archive entry
20080513120947920108441.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080513120947920108441.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080513120947920108441.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016