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pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections

pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central blocks

Dense Caption

Grid layout of 16 pixelated headshots on blue background; top-left to bottom-right: female with light brown hair, male with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; second row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; third row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; fourth row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; central red block covers 4 cells, green block covers 4 cells, yellow block covers 4 cells; all headshots show neutral expressions; some wear white collars; background is solid blue; pixelation is high.

Description

  • pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200902160923001986192273

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue headshots
  • pixelated neutral expressions
  • red green yellow blocks
  • white collars blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Grid of pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: 16 cells
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 16 cell grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid headshots

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pixelated headshots
  • neutral expressions
  • white collars
  • red block
  • green block
  • yellow block
  • high pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902160923001986192273
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89f018b9cd9acfa3643ab303fde4df5a0cd5eda30d7cd60bfddb991a77681df1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
89f018b9cd9acfa3
SHA-256
89f018b9cd9acfa3643ab303fde4df5a0cd5eda30d7cd60bfddb991a77681df1
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 01:36 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016028

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.145635

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,731 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,161, response 664

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • female (subject, 0.80)
  • male (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • white

Composition

  • central blocks

Dense Caption

Grid layout of 16 pixelated headshots on blue background; top-left to bottom-right: female with light brown hair, male with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; second row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; third row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; fourth row: female with light brown hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair, male with dark hair; central red block covers 4 cells, green block covers 4 cells, yellow block covers 4 cells; all headshots show neutral expressions; some wear white collars; background is solid blue; pixelation is high.

Description

  • pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200902160923001986192273

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue headshots
  • pixelated neutral expressions
  • red green yellow blocks
  • white collars blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Grid of pixelated headshots on blue background with central red, green, and yellow blocks obscuring sections.
  • quarantined wordwall: 16 cells
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 16 cell grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue grid headshots

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • female
  • male

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • pixelated headshots
  • neutral expressions
  • white collars
  • red block
  • green block
  • yellow block
  • high pixelation
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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
200902160923001986192273
Archive entry
200902160923001986192273.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902160923001986192273.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902160923001986192273.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016