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Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black.

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Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black.

Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm

Composition

  • group portrait
  • centered figures
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows three individuals: left person has long brown hair and pink clothing, center person has shoulder-length brown hair and light-colored top, right person wears white short-sleeve shirt with arm raised. All faces are pixelated. Bottom of image features bold cyan text "Friends" on black background; the 's' in "Friends" is partially obscured by a separate cyan block containing a partial letter. Background includes indistinct brown and blue shapes above figures.

Description

  • Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 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
  • 20081120163910749125874
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Friends

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends icon people brown hair white shirt
  • pixelated friends text cyan black background
  • three people posing raised arm

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Friends

Visually Supported Entities

  • text "Friends"

Wordwall

  • three people
  • brown hair
  • pink clothing
  • white shirt
  • arm raised
  • cyan text
  • "Friends"
  • pixelated faces
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081120163910749125874
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/7b/7bd9dc85401a9df355ee4cc9f398fdfcb961ccdde6ccb9b294e34167fe499730.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
7bd9dc85401a9df3
SHA-256
7bd9dc85401a9df355ee4cc9f398fdfcb961ccdde6ccb9b294e34167fe499730
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 09:54 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000032

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 18:27 UTC
Run
1196
Input
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Overall label
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
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Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,854 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,084, response 754

Review tags

  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • clothing (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • posing
  • raising arm

Colors

  • brown
  • pink
  • white
  • cyan
  • black
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • group portrait
  • centered figures
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows three individuals: left person has long brown hair and pink clothing, center person has shoulder-length brown hair and light-colored top, right person wears white short-sleeve shirt with arm raised. All faces are pixelated. Bottom of image features bold cyan text "Friends" on black background; the 's' in "Friends" is partially obscured by a separate cyan block containing a partial letter. Background includes indistinct brown and blue shapes above figures.

Description

  • Three people with brown hair pose together; one wears a white shirt, another pink. Pixelated text reads "Friends" in cyan on black.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 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
  • 20081120163910749125874
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly

Named Entities

  • Friends

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • friends icon people brown hair white shirt
  • pixelated friends text cyan black background
  • three people posing raised arm

Objects

  • clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • people
  • text

Visible Text

  • Friends

Visually Supported Entities

  • text "Friends"

Wordwall

  • three people
  • brown hair
  • pink clothing
  • white shirt
  • arm raised
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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
20081120163910749125874
Archive entry
20081120163910749125874.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081120163910749125874.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081120163910749125874.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016