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Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds

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Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds

Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static portraits displayed in

Composition

  • four portraits

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown-haired person with closed eyes smiling against light background. Top-right: two gray-haired individuals embracing; one wears teal shirt, other brown jacket. Bottom-left: dark-haired person wearing yellow hat, pink face, red clothing on yellow background. Bottom-right: two people in blue attire with light skin tones and smiles. All images are low-resolution pixelated portraits with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080106152250650487586

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair smiling
  • gray hair embrace teal shirt
  • yellow hat pink face red clothing
  • blue attire two people

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static portraits displayed in grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • smiling
  • light background
  • gray hair
  • embrace
  • teal shirt
  • brown jacket
  • yellow hat
  • pink face
  • red clothing
  • blue attire

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080106152250650487586
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.3 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 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
55a9edf6c1b941b6
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.179642

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Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:24 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,342 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 592

Review tags

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Actions

  • smiling
  • embracing
  • wearing

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static portraits displayed in

Colors

  • brown
  • light
  • gray
  • teal
  • yellow
  • pink
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • four portraits

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown-haired person with closed eyes smiling against light background. Top-right: two gray-haired individuals embracing; one wears teal shirt, other brown jacket. Bottom-left: dark-haired person wearing yellow hat, pink face, red clothing on yellow background. Bottom-right: two people in blue attire with light skin tones and smiles. All images are low-resolution pixelated portraits with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits arranged in a , each showing different people with varied expressions and backgrounds

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080106152250650487586

Mood

  • happy
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair smiling
  • gray hair embrace teal shirt
  • yellow hat pink face red clothing
  • blue attire two people

Objects

  • hat
  • shirt
  • jacket
  • clothing

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static portraits displayed in grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

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  • pixelated
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  • compressed

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

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  • closed eyes
  • smiling
  • light background
  • gray hair
  • embrace
  • teal shirt
  • brown jacket
  • yellow hat
  • pink face
  • red clothing
  • blue attire
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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
20080106152250650487586
Archive entry
20080106152250650487586.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#20080106152250650487586.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080106152250650487586.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016