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Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background.

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Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background.

Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Source terms

Animation

  • transitions between three static frames

Animation Summary

The animation transitions between three static frames showing different figures: three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair in a gray spaghetti-strap top, and a man with styled brown hair in a dark jacket.

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The animation consists of three distinct frames. The top-left frame shows three figures in dark clothing: two standing figures and one seated figure with crossed legs. The top-right frame shows a woman with long brown hair wearing a gray spaghetti-strap top against a brown background. The bottom-left frame shows a man with styled brown hair wearing a dark jacket against a dark background with light streaks. All frames are pixelated with low resolution. The animation transitions between these three static images without visible motion within individual frames.

Description

Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background.

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: celebrities
  • 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
  • 200912081703261264881638

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three figures dark clothing
  • woman long brown hair gray top
  • man styled brown hair dark jacket
  • pixelated low resolution animation
  • dark background light streaks
  • static frames transitions
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200912081703261264881638

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border visible

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • dark clothing
  • long brown hair
  • gray spaghetti-strap top
  • styled brown hair
  • dark background
  • light streaks
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200912081703261264881638
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6fc6fb6fb8290d2142aa4f77bdb8d2f3fbfe8f035ac880b94ef13361ac408a09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
6fc6fb6fb8290d21
SHA-256
6fc6fb6fb8290d2142aa4f77bdb8d2f3fbfe8f035ac880b94ef13361ac408a09
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 15:20 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022930

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.237891

OpenAI category scores

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Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 848

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light streaks (color, 0.80)
  • transitions between three static frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)
  • three figures (subject, 0.80)
  • woman (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • transitions between three static frames

Animation Summary

The animation transitions between three static frames showing different figures: three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair in a gray spaghetti-strap top, and a man with styled brown hair in a dark jacket.

Colors

  • dark
  • brown
  • gray
  • light streaks

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The animation consists of three distinct frames. The top-left frame shows three figures in dark clothing: two standing figures and one seated figure with crossed legs. The top-right frame shows a woman with long brown hair wearing a gray spaghetti-strap top against a brown background. The bottom-left frame shows a man with styled brown hair wearing a dark jacket against a dark background with light streaks. All frames are pixelated with low resolution. The animation transitions between these three static images without visible motion within individual frames.

Description

Animated sequence showing three figures in dark clothing, a woman with long brown hair, and a man with styled hair against a dark background.

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: celebrities
  • 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
  • 200912081703261264881638

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three figures dark clothing
  • woman long brown hair gray top
  • man styled brown hair dark jacket
  • pixelated low resolution animation
  • dark background light streaks
  • static frames transitions
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200912081703261264881638

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or border visible

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • three figures
  • woman
  • man

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • dark clothing
  • long brown hair
  • gray spaghetti-strap top
  • styled brown hair
  • dark background
  • light streaks
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static frames
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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
200912081703261264881638
Archive entry
200912081703261264881638.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200912081703261264881638.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200912081703261264881638.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016