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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • hand gesture

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: Red-haired figure with blue headband and gold necklace; top-right: Black-haired figure against brown background; bottom-left: Figure in white shirt making hand gesture; bottom-right: Long-haired figure in yellow top holding flower. All portraits have black-and-white pixelated text overlays reading 'dul', 'mgi', 'ucker', 'adhi' respectively. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

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

  • red hair blue headband gold necklace
  • black hair brown background white shirt
  • yellow top flower hand gesture
  • pixelated text dul mgi ucker adhi

Objects

  • flower

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with overlaid text labels.
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • dul
  • mgi
  • ucker
  • adhi

Visually Supported Entities

  • dul
  • mgi
  • ucker
  • adhi

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • blue headband
  • gold necklace
  • black hair
  • brown background
  • white shirt
  • hand gesture
  • yellow top
  • flower prop
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908260611401680361807
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/8624a73ddbc20fb2e6bb1c6814ac4426e04d9f043492235280c9dbf92a87605e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
8624a73ddbc20fb2
SHA-256
8624a73ddbc20fb2e6bb1c6814ac4426e04d9f043492235280c9dbf92a87605e
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 20:14 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.032195

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.183430

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,395 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 629

Review tags

  • hand gesture (action, 0.80)
  • holding flower (action, 0.80)
  • blue headband (object, 0.80)
  • flower (object, 0.80)
  • gold necklace (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid portraits (style, 0.80)
  • black haired figure (subject, 0.80)
  • long haired yellow top figure (subject, 0.80)
  • red haired figure (subject, 0.80)
  • white shirted figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand gesture
  • holding flower

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • white
  • yellow
  • black
  • blue
  • gold

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left: Red-haired figure with blue headband and gold necklace; top-right: Black-haired figure against brown background; bottom-left: Figure in white shirt making hand gesture; bottom-right: Long-haired figure in yellow top holding flower. All portraits have black-and-white pixelated text overlays reading 'dul', 'mgi', 'ucker', 'adhi' respectively. Pixelation suggests low-resolution rendering.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels

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

  • red hair blue headband gold necklace
  • black hair brown background white shirt
  • yellow top flower hand gesture
  • pixelated text dul mgi ucker adhi

Objects

  • blue headband
  • gold necklace
  • flower

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with overlaid text labels.
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid portraits

Subjects

  • red-haired figure
  • black-haired figure
  • white-shirted figure
  • long-haired yellow-top figure

Visible Text

  • dul
  • mgi
  • ucker
  • adhi

Visually Supported Entities

  • dul
  • mgi
  • ucker
  • adhi

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • blue headband
  • gold necklace
  • black hair
  • brown background
  • white shirt
  • hand gesture
  • yellow top
  • flower prop
  • pixelated text
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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
200908260611401680361807
Archive entry
200908260611401680361807.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200908260611401680361807.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908260611401680361807.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016