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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique hairstyles, clothing, and backgrounds

Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique hairstyles, clothing, and backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • empty square in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark curly hair, red shirt, dark jacket, light brown background. Top-right: person with dark wavy hair, light purple background. Bottom-left: person with brown curly hair, dark jacket, green and red background. Bottom-right: empty gray square. All portraits are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique hairstyles, clothing, 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 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • character portraits
  • dark curly hair red shirt
  • dark wavy hair light purple background
  • brown curly hair green red background
  • empty gray square
  • pixelated static portraits
  • four distinct portraits
  • low-resolution character images

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static images only
  • quarantined description: Four distinct character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique hairstyles, clothing, and backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid character portraits

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

  • dark curly hair
  • red shirt
  • dark jacket
  • light brown background
  • dark wavy hair
  • light purple background
  • brown curly hair
  • green and red background
  • empty gray square

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080725133605742741156
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
728ef54693aa6cc1
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109390

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique hairstyles, clothing, and backgrounds

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,428 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 775

Review tags

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Colors

  • dark brown
  • red
  • dark gray
  • light brown
  • dark purple
  • light purple
  • brown
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • empty square in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark curly hair, red shirt, dark jacket, light brown background. Top-right: person with dark wavy hair, light purple background. Bottom-left: person with brown curly hair, dark jacket, green and red background. Bottom-right: empty gray square. All portraits are static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Four distinct character portraits arranged in a , each with unique hairstyles, clothing, 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 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

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

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  • dark curly hair red shirt
  • dark wavy hair light purple background
  • brown curly hair green red background
  • empty gray square
  • pixelated static portraits
  • four distinct portraits
  • low-resolution character images

Preprocessing Notes

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  • static images only
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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • person
  • empty space

Wordwall

  • dark curly hair
  • red shirt
  • dark jacket
  • light brown background
  • dark wavy hair
  • light purple background
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  • green and red background
  • empty gray square
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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
20080725133605742741156
Archive entry
20080725133605742741156.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080725133605742741156.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080725133605742741156.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016