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A four- shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty

A four- shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty. Animated 50×50 G…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • square
  • white background in three
  • gray background in one

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with dark hair, blue reflective sunglasses, black jacket, raised right hand, white background. Top-right panel: person with curly brown hair, red collared shirt, light background. Bottom-left panel: person with dark hair, black high-collared jacket, tilted head, white background. Bottom-right panel: solid light gray background. All panels are square, 256x256 pixels. Pixelation is visible across all panels. No text or symbols present.

Description

A four- shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907211504581261839453

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sunglasses red shirt black jacket
  • pixelated four
  • curly hair white background gray background
  • raised hand tilted head smiling

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout is part of the asset, not a separate observation
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: gray background in one panel
  • quarantined composition: white background in three panels
  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • red shirt
  • black jacket
  • curly hair
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • four

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907211504581261839453
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a23a46e382f69acb9ef4f091823b6d04bb513d0a4a67657e053be3eb3ea37eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
8a23a46e382f69ac
SHA-256
8a23a46e382f69acb9ef4f091823b6d04bb513d0a4a67657e053be3eb3ea37eb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110902

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930875onnx/unsafe0.110902onnx/nsfw0.065991onnx/nsfl0.044911
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A four- shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,745 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 839

Review tags

  • raised hand (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • tilted head (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • sunglasses (object, 0.80)
  • color (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised hand
  • tilted head
  • smiling

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • blue

Composition

  • four
  • square
  • white background in three
  • gray background in one

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with dark hair, blue reflective sunglasses, black jacket, raised right hand, white background. Top-right panel: person with curly brown hair, red collared shirt, light background. Bottom-left panel: person with dark hair, black high-collared jacket, tilted head, white background. Bottom-right panel: solid light gray background. All panels are square, 256x256 pixels. Pixelation is visible across all panels. No text or symbols present.

Description

A four- shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907211504581261839453

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sunglasses red shirt black jacket
  • pixelated four
  • curly hair white background gray background
  • raised hand tilted head smiling

Objects

  • sunglasses

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout is part of the asset, not a separate observation
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person in various poses: top-left with sunglasses and a raised hand, top-right in a red shirt, bottom-left with a tilted head, bottom-right empty.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: gray background in one panel
  • quarantined composition: white background in three panels
  • quarantined composition: square panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • color

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • sunglasses
  • red shirt
  • black jacket
  • curly hair
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • four
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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
200907211504581261839453
Archive entry
200907211504581261839453.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907211504581261839453.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907211504581261839453.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016