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A four- of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols

A four- of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; static four- with consistent subject

Composition

  • four
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with curly brown hair wearing black jacket over white shirt, smiling, background with pink and blue shapes, white text 'Mi' on black rectangle. Top-right panel: same person in grayscale, neutral expression, background gray, white text 'ka' on black rectangle. Bottom-left panel: person in red shirt, side profile, green and brown background, white '<3' symbol on black rectangle. Bottom-right panel: empty light gray space. All panels have low-resolution pixelated rendering.

Description

  • A four- of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance era: 2010
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance era: 2013
  • provenance era: 2014
  • provenance era: 2015
  • 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911151220161522010260

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person
  • Mi ka <3 text
  • grayscale red shirt side profile
  • pixelated four

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes; static four-panel grid with consistent subject across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation
  • no frame count
  • no dimensions

Visible Text

  • Mi
  • ka
  • <3

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • pink background
  • blue background
  • grayscale
  • red shirt
  • green background
  • brown background
  • text 'Mi'
  • text 'ka'
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated
  • four
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • side profile
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911151220161522010260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f32df084873bad7f4c0a0b08cff7214ceafbeb68a10c80524d55a7e70af22ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
8f32df084873bad7
SHA-256
8f32df084873bad7f4c0a0b08cff7214ceafbeb68a10c80524d55a7e70af22ff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079203

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.937881onnx/unsafe0.079203onnx/nsfw0.042416onnx/nsfl0.036788
Enrichment records (1)
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A four- of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,529 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 860

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • side profile (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text rectangles (object, 0.80)
  • colorized (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • side profile

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; static four- with consistent subject

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • four
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left panel: person with curly brown hair wearing black jacket over white shirt, smiling, background with pink and blue shapes, white text 'Mi' on black rectangle. Top-right panel: same person in grayscale, neutral expression, background gray, white text 'ka' on black rectangle. Bottom-left panel: person in red shirt, side profile, green and brown background, white '<3' symbol on black rectangle. Bottom-right panel: empty light gray space. All panels have low-resolution pixelated rendering.

Description

  • A four- of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance era: 2010
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance era: 2013
  • provenance era: 2014
  • provenance era: 2015
  • 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200911151220161522010260

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly brown hair person
  • Mi ka <3 text
  • grayscale red shirt side profile
  • pixelated four

Objects

  • text rectangles
  • <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid of pixelated images showing a person with curly brown hair in different poses and color treatments, with overlaid text and symbols.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes; static four-panel grid with consistent subject across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no animation
  • no frame count
  • no dimensions

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale
  • colorized

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Mi
  • ka
  • <3

Wordwall

  • curly brown hair
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • pink background
  • blue background
  • grayscale
  • red shirt
  • green background
  • brown background
  • text 'Mi'
  • text 'ka'
  • <3 symbol
  • pixelated
  • four
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • side profile
  • low-resolution
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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
200911151220161522010260
Archive entry
200911151220161522010260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911151220161522010260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911151220161522010260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016