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Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below

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Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below

Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Source terms

Composition

  • five portraits
  • text labels below figures

Dense Caption

Top row left to right: white-faced character with red eyes and black hair labeled 'gerard' in red text; character with dark hair and blue eyes labeled 'frankie' in pink text; character with dark hair and glasses labeled 'mikey' in gray text. Bottom row left to right: character with short gray hair labeled 'bob' in yellow text; character with curly brown hair labeled 'ray' in red text. All portraits are pixelated, set against solid or blurred backgrounds, with text labels in distinct colors below each figure.

Description

  • Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gerard frankie mikey bob ray
  • red pink gray yellow text labels
  • white face red eyes blue eyes glasses
  • short gray hair curly brown hair
  • pixelated character portraits
  • text labels below portraits
  • red pink gray yellow colors
  • five character portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a grid, each with a name label below.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated character portraits grid

Visible Text

  • gerard
  • frankie
  • mikey
  • bob
  • ray

Wordwall

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  • frankie
  • mikey
  • bob
  • ray
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  • gray text
  • yellow text
  • white face
  • red eyes
  • blue eyes
  • glasses
  • short gray hair
  • curly brown hair
  • pixelated portraits
  • text labels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080912095256289347830
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4fc7a3b588a4902bb9d3543cf388feb6378098d05a417f1dd9d0e0a348023bc1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
4fc7a3b588a4902b
SHA-256
4fc7a3b588a4902bb9d3543cf388feb6378098d05a417f1dd9d0e0a348023bc1
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 23:51 UTC
Run
1309
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001608

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July 27, 2026 at 17:35 UTC
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1196
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July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
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Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,376 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 730

Review tags

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  • character with blue eyes (subject, 0.80)
  • character with curly brown hair (subject, 0.80)
  • character with glasses (subject, 0.80)
  • character with short gray hair (subject, 0.80)
  • white faced character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • gray
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • five portraits
  • text labels below figures

Dense Caption

Top row left to right: white-faced character with red eyes and black hair labeled 'gerard' in red text; character with dark hair and blue eyes labeled 'frankie' in pink text; character with dark hair and glasses labeled 'mikey' in gray text. Bottom row left to right: character with short gray hair labeled 'bob' in yellow text; character with curly brown hair labeled 'ray' in red text. All portraits are pixelated, set against solid or blurred backgrounds, with text labels in distinct colors below each figure.

Description

  • Five distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with a name label below

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

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Subjects

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  • character with glasses
  • character with short gray hair
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  • glasses
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  • text labels
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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
20080912095256289347830
Archive entry
20080912095256289347830.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080912095256289347830.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080912095256289347830.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016