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Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied backgrounds.

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Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied backgrounds.

Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with four distinct

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

Top-left: A shirtless person with dark hair under a white star on black background; top-right: A person wearing a gray flat cap and earrings on light background; bottom-left: A person with long dark hair and pink collar on dark background; bottom-right: Three people in dark shirts on light background. All portraits have overlaid text labels reading "Nicholas <Joseph<3", "Kevin<3", and "joe bros <3" respectively, using black or green pixelated fonts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied 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 topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080818194621890160984

Named Entities

  • Nicholas
  • Joseph
  • Kevin
  • Joe bros

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nicholas joseph kevin joe bros buddy icons
  • pixelated text overlays star flat cap pink collar
  • four person portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image with four distinct panels
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static image with four distinct panels.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid person portraits

Subjects

  • star symbol

Visible Text

  • Nicholas <Joseph<3
  • Kevin<3
  • joe bros <3

Wordwall

  • white star
  • gray flat cap
  • pink collar
  • three people
  • black background
  • light background
  • pixelated font
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080818194621890160984
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7bdc39394714a461d0f14b666f701fd12682bd96aa0118a6c5515a792de1d8cf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
7bdc39394714a461
SHA-256
7bdc39394714a461d0f14b666f701fd12682bd96aa0118a6c5515a792de1d8cf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
1074
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127199

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,563 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 620

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • collar (object, 0.80)
  • flat cap (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid portraits (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • star symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text labels (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with four distinct

Colors

  • white
  • gray
  • black
  • pink
  • green
  • light background color

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

Top-left: A shirtless person with dark hair under a white star on black background; top-right: A person wearing a gray flat cap and earrings on light background; bottom-left: A person with long dark hair and pink collar on dark background; bottom-right: Three people in dark shirts on light background. All portraits have overlaid text labels reading "Nicholas <Joseph<3", "Kevin<3", and "joe bros <3" respectively, using black or green pixelated fonts.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated portraits with overlaid text labels, each showing a person in different attire and poses against varied 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 topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080818194621890160984

Named Entities

  • Nicholas
  • Joseph
  • Kevin
  • Joe bros

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • nicholas joseph kevin joe bros buddy icons
  • pixelated text overlays star flat cap pink collar
  • four person portraits

Objects

  • flat cap
  • collar

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; static image with four distinct panels
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static image with four distinct panels.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid person portraits

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid portraits

Subjects

  • person
  • star symbol
  • text labels

Visible Text

  • Nicholas <Joseph<3
  • Kevin<3
  • joe bros <3

Wordwall

  • white star
  • gray flat cap
  • pink collar
  • three people
  • black background
  • light background
  • pixelated font
  • text overlays
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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
20080818194621890160984
Archive entry
20080818194621890160984.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080818194621890160984.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080818194621890160984.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016