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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details

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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details

Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up cropping

Dense Caption

Top-left: Character with light brown hair wearing green robe over yellow shirt. Top-right: Character with reddish-blonde hair in blue-toned background. Bottom-left: Character with dark curly hair and glasses in grayscale background. Bottom-right: Solid black square. All portraits are cropped close-up, showing only upper bodies or faces.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green robe yellow shirt character
  • reddish-blonde hair blue background
  • grayscale glasses character
  • black square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique clothing and background details.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid black square

Visually Supported Entities

  • character portrait
  • solid black square

Wordwall

  • green robe
  • yellow shirt
  • reddish-blonde hair
  • grayscale background
  • black square

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807130757381782689525
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.8 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 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
50f0bb869b383857
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 12:10 UTC
Run
1309
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000496

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July 26, 2026 at 11:04 UTC
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1191
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 604

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • black square (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale background (object, 0.80)
  • green robe (object, 0.80)
  • reddish blonde hair (object, 0.80)
  • yellow shirt (object, 0.80)
  • character based (style, 0.80)
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  • solid black square (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up cropping

Dense Caption

Top-left: Character with light brown hair wearing green robe over yellow shirt. Top-right: Character with reddish-blonde hair in blue-toned background. Bottom-left: Character with dark curly hair and glasses in grayscale background. Bottom-right: Solid black square. All portraits are cropped close-up, showing only upper bodies or faces.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background details

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green robe yellow shirt character
  • reddish-blonde hair blue background
  • grayscale glasses character
  • black square

Objects

  • green robe
  • yellow shirt
  • reddish-blonde hair
  • grayscale background
  • black square

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid black square

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • character-based

Subjects

  • character portrait
  • solid black square

Visually Supported Entities

  • character portrait
  • solid black square

Wordwall

  • green robe
  • yellow shirt
  • reddish-blonde hair
  • grayscale background
  • black square
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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
200807130757381782689525
Archive entry
200807130757381782689525.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807130757381782689525.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807130757381782689525.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016