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Four- with three people and text; top-left person has red hair, top-right person wears glasses, bottom-left person has dark hair, bottom-right displays cyan text on black background

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left panel shows a person with long red hair against a dark background. Top-right panel shows a person with curly brown hair and eyeglasses against a dark background. Bottom-left panel shows a person with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt against a light blue striped background. Bottom-right panel shows cyan text "WE THE KINGS!!" on a black background. All panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid with no visible animation changes.

Description

Four- with three people and text; top-left person has red hair, top-right person wears glasses, bottom-left person has dark hair, bottom-right displays cyan text on black background

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: 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
  • 20081214163457677117189

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair person glasses dark hair
  • cyan text WE THE KINGS
  • blue shirt light blue stripes
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid with three people and text; top-left person has red hair, top-right person wears glasses, bottom-left person has dark hair, bottom-right displays cyan text on black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four distinct panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid text

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

Visible Text

  • WE THE KINGS!!

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • eyeglasses
  • dark hair
  • blue shirt
  • light blue stripes
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • text "WE THE KINGS!!"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081214163457677117189
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8dbd957f2ac91db7729842927f48ef414ea939e4d3fa6f36b0e061182f6cba9d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
8dbd957f2ac91db7
SHA-256
8dbd957f2ac91db7729842927f48ef414ea939e4d3fa6f36b0e061182f6cba9d
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
September 1, 2026 at 18:08 UTC
Run
15975
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
1284
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
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1039
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Four- with three people and text; top-left person has red hair, top-right person wears glasses, bottom-left person has dark hair, bottom-right displays cyan text on black background

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,413 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 812

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • confident (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dark haired person (subject, 0.80)
  • person with eyeglasses (subject, 0.80)
  • red haired person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • blue
  • cyan
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • four distinct

Dense Caption

Top-left panel shows a person with long red hair against a dark background. Top-right panel shows a person with curly brown hair and eyeglasses against a dark background. Bottom-left panel shows a person with short dark hair wearing a blue shirt against a light blue striped background. Bottom-right panel shows cyan text "WE THE KINGS!!" on a black background. All panels are arranged in a 2x2 grid with no visible animation changes.

Description

Four- with three people and text; top-left person has red hair, top-right person wears glasses, bottom-left person has dark hair, bottom-right displays cyan text on black background

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: 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
  • 20081214163457677117189

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair person glasses dark hair
  • cyan text WE THE KINGS
  • blue shirt light blue stripes
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • red-haired person
  • person with eyeglasses
  • dark-haired person

Visible Text

  • WE THE KINGS!!

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • eyeglasses
  • dark hair
  • blue shirt
  • light blue stripes
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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
20081214163457677117189
Archive entry
20081214163457677117189.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081214163457677117189.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081214163457677117189.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016