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five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • five distinct portraits

Dense Caption

Top-left: a blue-toned portrait of a person looking down. Top-middle: a person in a black shirt holding a white rectangular object against a red background. Top-right: an orange-toned close-up of a person's face. Bottom-left: a high-contrast light-toned portrait of a person with head tilted up. Bottom-middle: a blue-toned portrait of a person looking forward, with 'Leming' text below. All portraits are pixelated and arranged in a grid layout.

Description

  • five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Leming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue-toned portraits
  • orange close-up
  • text overlay Leming
  • pixelated portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid portraits

Visible Text

  • Leming

Visually Supported Entities

  • Leming

Wordwall

  • blue-toned portraits
  • orange close-up
  • high-contrast light portrait
  • text overlay 'Leming'
  • red background
  • black shirt
  • white rectangular object

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080216132829495934482
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 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 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
7748ed23fd0e1d76
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134154

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five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 22:50 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,684 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 589

Review tags

  • holding an object (action, 0.80)
  • looking down (action, 0.80)
  • looking forward (action, 0.80)
  • tilting head up (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • contemplative (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • white rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale with color accents (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • looking down
  • holding an object
  • tilting head up
  • looking forward

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • five distinct portraits

Dense Caption

Top-left: a blue-toned portrait of a person looking down. Top-middle: a person in a black shirt holding a white rectangular object against a red background. Top-right: an orange-toned close-up of a person's face. Bottom-left: a high-contrast light-toned portrait of a person with head tilted up. Bottom-middle: a blue-toned portrait of a person looking forward, with 'Leming' text below. All portraits are pixelated and arranged in a grid layout.

Description

  • five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral
  • contemplative

Named Entities

  • Leming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue-toned portraits
  • orange close-up
  • text overlay Leming
  • pixelated portraits

Objects

  • white rectangular object

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of five distinct pixelated portraits with varying color tones and expressions, some featuring text overlays.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid portraits

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale with color accents

Subjects

  • people

Visible Text

  • Leming

Visually Supported Entities

  • Leming

Wordwall

  • blue-toned portraits
  • orange close-up
  • high-contrast light portrait
  • text overlay 'Leming'
  • red background
  • black shirt
  • white rectangular object
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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
20080216132829495934482
Archive entry
20080216132829495934482.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080216132829495934482.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080216132829495934482.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016