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Four people in a group pose with one person wearing red, against a light background.

Four people in a group pose with one person wearing red, against a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • grouped together
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows four individuals positioned closely together. The first individual on the left wears dark clothing and has short dark hair. The second individual also wears dark clothing and has short dark hair. The third individual wears a red shirt and has short dark hair. The fourth individual wears dark clothing and has light-colored hair. All faces are pixelated with visible eyes, noses, and mouths. The background is a light gray gradient.

Description

  • Four people in a group pose with one person wearing red, against a light background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Backstreet Boys

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709041607541339554936

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • backstreet boys group
  • red shirt person
  • four people pixel art

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • four people
  • group pose
  • red shirt
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • pixelated faces

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709041607541339554936
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
88251042f58c1144
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four people in a group pose with one person wearing red, against a light background.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:28 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 610

Review tags

  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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Actions

  • posing

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • grouped together
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

The image shows four individuals positioned closely together. The first individual on the left wears dark clothing and has short dark hair. The second individual also wears dark clothing and has short dark hair. The third individual wears a red shirt and has short dark hair. The fourth individual wears dark clothing and has light-colored hair. All faces are pixelated with visible eyes, noses, and mouths. The background is a light gray gradient.

Description

  • Four people in a group pose with one person wearing red, against a light background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Backstreet Boys

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709041607541339554936

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • backstreet boys group
  • red shirt person
  • four people pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • people
  • group

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • four people
  • group pose
  • red shirt
  • dark clothing
  • light background
  • pixelated faces
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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
200709041607541339554936
Archive entry
200709041607541339554936.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709041607541339554936.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709041607541339554936.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016