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Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements.

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Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements.

Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three figures side-by-side
  • central figure prominent
  • stylized symbol below figures
  • background with color clusters

Dense Caption

Three cartoonish figures with yellow faces and red hats stand side-by-side against a purple background. The central figure wears blue clothing with white accents. The left figure has green and white elements on its lower body. The right figure has blue and white elements on its lower body. A large yellow and red symbol resembling a stylized 'R' or flame is visible below the figures. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending. The background features purple, green, and white pixel clusters. The figures have simple facial features with dark eyes and mouths. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements.

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
  • 200708201604031461232237

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three cartoon figures red hats
  • yellow faces purple background
  • stylized R symbol blue clothing
  • pixelated retro digital figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible dithering

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

Wordwall

  • yellow faces
  • red hats
  • blue clothing
  • purple background
  • green elements
  • white accents
  • stylized 'R' symbol
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • three figures

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708201604031461232237
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d50493edcd20fec404a69b9dcffd087d2089b384e767ead681aca81db981128.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
6d50493edcd20fec
SHA-256
6d50493edcd20fec404a69b9dcffd087d2089b384e767ead681aca81db981128
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073264

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,913 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 901

Review tags

  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue clothing (object, 0.80)
  • red hats (object, 0.80)
  • stylized r symbol (object, 0.80)
  • yellow faces (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon figures (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • three figures side-by-side
  • central figure prominent
  • stylized symbol below figures
  • background with color clusters

Dense Caption

Three cartoonish figures with yellow faces and red hats stand side-by-side against a purple background. The central figure wears blue clothing with white accents. The left figure has green and white elements on its lower body. The right figure has blue and white elements on its lower body. A large yellow and red symbol resembling a stylized 'R' or flame is visible below the figures. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending. The background features purple, green, and white pixel clusters. The figures have simple facial features with dark eyes and mouths. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

Pixelated image of three cartoonish figures with yellow faces, red hats, and blue clothing against a purple background with green and white elements.

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
  • 200708201604031461232237

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow faces purple background
  • stylized R symbol blue clothing
  • pixelated retro digital figures

Objects

  • red hats
  • blue clothing
  • yellow faces
  • stylized 'R' symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with visible dithering

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • cartoon figures
  • stylized symbol

Wordwall

  • yellow faces
  • red hats
  • blue clothing
  • purple background
  • green elements
  • white accents
  • stylized 'R' symbol
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • three figures
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:23 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708201604031461232237
Archive entry
200708201604031461232237.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708201604031461232237.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708201604031461232237.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016