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Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom.

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Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom.

Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle position shift

Animation Summary

  • Subtle position shift of central figure and background figures across frames.

Composition

  • group of people
  • central figure
  • light gray area

Dense Caption

The image shows a group of people in a dark background. A central figure in dark clothing is positioned slightly left of center, with another figure in red clothing to their right. Additional figures are visible in the background, some with light-colored hair. The text 'emill' appears in white at the bottom of the image. The animation shows a subtle shift in the central figure's position and the background figures' visibility across frames. The right side of the image has a light gray area in the lower right corner. The overall style is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • group of people dark background
  • central figure dark clothing
  • text emill
  • low-resolution pixelated
  • subtle position shift
  • light gray area
  • red clothing
  • white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • light gray area in lower right corner

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • emill

Visually Supported Entities

  • emill

Wordwall

  • group of people
  • dark background
  • central figure in dark clothing
  • figure in red clothing
  • light-colored hair
  • text 'emill'
  • white text
  • subtle position shift
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • light gray area
  • background figures
  • central figure
  • red clothing
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904201414212142691909
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/56/5697d260cc3fe9d3c0f8a1fdebb7b9c542bc225e88f927d20a5c08846abb05db.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
5697d260cc3fe9d3
SHA-256
5697d260cc3fe9d3c0f8a1fdebb7b9c542bc225e88f927d20a5c08846abb05db
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081558

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918442onnx/unsafe0.081558onnx/nsfl0.042633onnx/nsfw0.038925
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Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 852

Review tags

  • subtle position shift (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light colored (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text emill (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • background figures (subject, 0.80)
  • central figure (subject, 0.80)
  • group of people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • subtle position shift

Animation

  • subtle position shift

Animation Summary

  • Subtle position shift of central figure and background figures across frames.

Colors

  • dark
  • red
  • light-colored
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • group of people
  • central figure
  • light gray area

Dense Caption

The image shows a group of people in a dark background. A central figure in dark clothing is positioned slightly left of center, with another figure in red clothing to their right. Additional figures are visible in the background, some with light-colored hair. The text 'emill' appears in white at the bottom of the image. The animation shows a subtle shift in the central figure's position and the background figures' visibility across frames. The right side of the image has a light gray area in the lower right corner. The overall style is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

Animated sequence showing a group of people with a central figure in dark clothing, some figures blurred, and text reading 'emill' at the bottom.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • group of people dark background
  • central figure dark clothing
  • text emill
  • low-resolution pixelated
  • subtle position shift
  • light gray area
  • red clothing
  • white text

Objects

  • text 'emill'

Preprocessing Notes

  • light gray area in lower right corner

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • group of people
  • central figure
  • background figures

Visible Text

  • emill

Visually Supported Entities

  • emill

Wordwall

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  • dark background
  • central figure in dark clothing
  • figure in red clothing
  • light-colored hair
  • text 'emill'
  • white text
  • subtle position shift
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • light gray area
  • background figures
  • central figure
  • red clothing
  • dark clothing
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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
200904201414212142691909
Archive entry
200904201414212142691909.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904201414212142691909.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904201414212142691909.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016