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Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text.

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Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text.

Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • centered figures

Dense Caption

Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background. The left figure wears a black sleeveless top and white shorts, with red-tinted sunglasses. The central figure wears a black hoodie with white text and a white undershirt. The right figure wears a white sleeveless top with a pink and yellow pattern. All figures have brown hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080914160259578713406
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three people dark blue background
  • black hoodie white text
  • red-tinted sunglasses
  • white sleeveless top pink yellow
  • pixelated blocky figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance

Visible Text

  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • dark blue background
  • black sleeveless top
  • white shorts
  • red-tinted sunglasses
  • black hoodie
  • white text
  • white undershirt
  • white sleeveless top
  • pink and yellow pattern
  • brown hair
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080914160259578713406
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
6c61f0e57234c28e
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
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1039
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Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 714

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  • dark blue
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  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • pink
  • yellow

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  • side-by-side
  • centered figures

Dense Caption

Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background. The left figure wears a black sleeveless top and white shorts, with red-tinted sunglasses. The central figure wears a black hoodie with white text and a white undershirt. The right figure wears a white sleeveless top with a pink and yellow pattern. All figures have brown hair. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Three pixelated figures stand side-by-side against a dark blue background, with the central figure wearing a black hoodie with white text.

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

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080914160259578713406
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

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  • black hoodie white text
  • red-tinted sunglasses
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  • pixelated blocky figures

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Subjects

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  • FRANKS

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  • red-tinted sunglasses
  • black hoodie
  • white text
  • white undershirt
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  • pink and yellow pattern
  • brown hair
  • pixelated
  • blocky appearance
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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
20080914160259578713406
Archive entry
20080914160259578713406.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#20080914160259578713406.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080914160259578713406.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016