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Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three

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Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three

Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two of three portraits
  • text below each portrait
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Six pixelated character portraits arranged in two rows of three. Top row from left to right: blue hair, orange hair, purple hair. Bottom row from left to right: green hair, pink hair, yellow hair. Each portrait has a smiling expression with visible teeth. Below each portrait is the text 'WAY' in matching color: blue, orange, purple, green, pink, yellow. Background is solid black. Hair colors are solid, flat, and distinct. Portraits show the same character with different hair colors. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue hair way
  • orange hair way
  • purple hair way
  • green hair way
  • pink hair way
  • yellow hair way
  • six character portraits
  • matching text color

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two rows of three.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of three
  • quarantined composition: two rows of three portraits

Style

  • flat color

Visible Text

  • WAY

Wordwall

  • blue hair
  • orange hair
  • purple hair
  • green hair
  • pink hair
  • yellow hair
  • smiling expression
  • text 'WAY'
  • matching text color
  • solid black background
  • pixelated character
  • two of three
  • flat hair color
  • visible teeth
  • same character
  • distinct hair colors
  • text below portrait
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081225222435394118365
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.6 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
82a6f1a556da6ff1
SHA-256
82a6f1a556da6ff11e8ba84e043f83a978b0219f3d41ced5cf52d3b605364a49
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119384

OpenAI category scores

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Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,217 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 679

Review tags

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Actions

  • smiling

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  • blue
  • orange
  • purple
  • green
  • pink
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • two of three portraits
  • text below each portrait
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Six pixelated character portraits arranged in two rows of three. Top row from left to right: blue hair, orange hair, purple hair. Bottom row from left to right: green hair, pink hair, yellow hair. Each portrait has a smiling expression with visible teeth. Below each portrait is the text 'WAY' in matching color: blue, orange, purple, green, pink, yellow. Background is solid black. Hair colors are solid, flat, and distinct. Portraits show the same character with different hair colors. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two of three

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy

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  • orange hair way
  • purple hair way
  • green hair way
  • pink hair way
  • yellow hair way
  • six character portraits
  • matching text color

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six pixelated character portraits with varying hair colors and text labels below each, arranged in two rows of three.
  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of three
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Style

  • pixelated
  • flat color
  • static

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • WAY

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  • orange hair
  • purple hair
  • green hair
  • pink hair
  • yellow hair
  • smiling expression
  • text 'WAY'
  • matching text color
  • solid black background
  • pixelated character
  • two of three
  • flat hair color
  • visible teeth
  • same character
  • distinct hair colors
  • text below portrait
  • no animation
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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
20081225222435394118365
Archive entry
20081225222435394118365.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081225222435394118365.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081225222435394118365.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016