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A four- shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one containing blue text

A four- shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one containing blue text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain content
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: grayscale image of a person wearing white shirt against dark background; blue pixelated text "West Allis" appears left side. Top-right panel: color image of same person in white jacket over red shirt against light brown textured wall. Bottom-left panel: color close-up of person with hand near head, wearing beige top against dark background. Bottom-right panel is empty gray space.

Description

  • A four- shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one containing blue text

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

  • West Allis text
  • four
  • grayscale and color images
  • hand near head pose

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static input
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one panel containing blue text.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel empty
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels contain content
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Visible Text

  • West Allis

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • white shirt
  • dark background
  • blue text
  • "West Allis"
  • color image
  • light brown wall
  • beige top
  • hand near head

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905221553131685987603
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/88/8891b3e5c3f39b10da95f063e54f572a08a091f84668112a7df91b1c76d0ac2f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
8891b3e5c3f39b10
SHA-256
8891b3e5c3f39b10da95f063e54f572a08a091f84668112a7df91b1c76d0ac2f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123808

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one containing blue text

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,390 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 578

Review tags

  • hand near head (action, 0.80)
  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • posing
  • hand near head

Colors

  • grayscale
  • white
  • dark gray
  • blue
  • light brown
  • red
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain content
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: grayscale image of a person wearing white shirt against dark background; blue pixelated text "West Allis" appears left side. Top-right panel: color image of same person in white jacket over red shirt against light brown textured wall. Bottom-left panel: color close-up of person with hand near head, wearing beige top against dark background. Bottom-right panel is empty gray space.

Description

  • A four- shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one containing blue text

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
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • West Allis text
  • four
  • grayscale and color images
  • hand near head pose

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static input
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in various poses and backgrounds, with one panel containing blue text.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel empty
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels contain content
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • West Allis

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • white shirt
  • dark background
  • blue text
  • "West Allis"
  • color image
  • light brown wall
  • beige top
  • hand near head
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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
200905221553131685987603
Archive entry
200905221553131685987603.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905221553131685987603.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905221553131685987603.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016