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Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background styles

Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background styles. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: woman with long dark hair wearing blue sleeveless top holding silver camera to face. Top-middle: blonde woman in striped bikini top holding microphone against black dotted background. Top-right: woman with long red hair and light makeup. Bottom-left: man with short dark hair in light blue shirt looking down. Bottom-middle: person with bright pink hair, yellow shirt, and gray beard stubble. Bottom-right: group of seven people on blue background with white text '6' visible; some wear green camouflage-like clothing.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background styles

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair woman camera
  • striped bikini microphone
  • red hair neutral expression
  • short dark hair man blue shirt
  • pink hair yellow shirt beard
  • group six people green clothing

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique clothing and background styles.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout

Visible Text

  • 6

Visually Supported Entities

  • 6 (text)

Wordwall

  • long dark hair
  • blue sleeveless top
  • silver camera
  • striped bikini top
  • black dotted background
  • red hair
  • light makeup
  • short dark hair
  • light blue shirt
  • pink hair
  • yellow shirt
  • gray beard stubble
  • group of seven people
  • green camouflage clothing
  • white text '6'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081001110216125346372
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d109f12d0e2953dd0ec93e383bd68ea571f56506b069a8c59db319baef2b17e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
7d109f12d0e2953d
SHA-256
7d109f12d0e2953dd0ec93e383bd68ea571f56506b069a8c59db319baef2b17e
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 02:33 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.037798

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.037798falseharassment0.000025falseviolence0.000014falsesexual/minors0.000013falsehate0.000007falseself-harm0.000006falseviolence/graphic0.000006falseillicit0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/sexual0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001208

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001208falsesexual0.000743falseself-harm0.000488falseself-harm/intent0.000213falseviolence/graphic0.000037falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.517698

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.880238onnx/unsafe0.517698onnx/nsfw0.460880onnx/nsfl0.056817
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background styles

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,504 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 689

Review tags

  • holding camera (action, 0.80)
  • holding microphone (action, 0.80)
  • looking down (action, 0.80)
  • camera (object, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • group (subject, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • woman (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding camera
  • holding microphone
  • looking down

Colors

  • blue
  • silver
  • striped
  • black
  • red
  • light blue
  • pink
  • yellow
  • gray
  • green
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: woman with long dark hair wearing blue sleeveless top holding silver camera to face. Top-middle: blonde woman in striped bikini top holding microphone against black dotted background. Top-right: woman with long red hair and light makeup. Bottom-left: man with short dark hair in light blue shirt looking down. Bottom-middle: person with bright pink hair, yellow shirt, and gray beard stubble. Bottom-right: group of seven people on blue background with white text '6' visible; some wear green camouflage-like clothing.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background styles

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
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • long dark hair woman camera
  • striped bikini microphone
  • red hair neutral expression
  • short dark hair man blue shirt
  • pink hair yellow shirt beard
  • group six people green clothing

Objects

  • camera
  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy-icon style

Subjects

  • woman
  • man
  • person
  • group

Visible Text

  • 6

Visually Supported Entities

  • 6 (text)

Wordwall

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  • blue sleeveless top
  • silver camera
  • striped bikini top
  • black dotted background
  • red hair
  • light makeup
  • short dark hair
  • light blue shirt
  • pink hair
  • yellow shirt
  • gray beard stubble
  • group of seven people
  • green camouflage clothing
  • white text '6'
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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
20081001110216125346372
Archive entry
20081001110216125346372.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081001110216125346372.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081001110216125346372.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016