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Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones.

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Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones.

Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two-by-two grid
  • centered faces
  • partial cropping bottom-left face

Dense Caption

The image shows four distinct human faces rendered in low-resolution pixels. Top-left face has brown hair, neutral expression, visible eyes and nose. Top-right face has short light-colored hair, smiling mouth, visible eyes. Bottom-left face is partially cropped at the bottom edge, showing forehead to chin with a neutral expression. Bottom-right face is centered below top two faces, displaying a broad smile with visible teeth. All faces have pale skin tones. Background consists of dark gray and black pixels with scattered light blue and white highlights. The image has no visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated faces grid
  • buddy icons celebrity images
  • low resolution human portraits
  • dark background smiling neutral faces

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Subjects

  • human faces

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • four pixelated human faces
  • two-by-two grid layout
  • dark background with gray and blue accents
  • top-left face brown hair neutral expression
  • top-right face short light hair smiling
  • bottom-left face partially cropped
  • bottom-right face broad smile teeth
  • pale skin tones on all faces

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803150946001531146379
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f61536cc1b74ce92e16dd193a8653690a10976f6ea1a3e7ad1d385748798b58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
8f61536cc1b74ce9
SHA-256
8f61536cc1b74ce92e16dd193a8653690a10976f6ea1a3e7ad1d385748798b58
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000014

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1219
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001144

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
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1128
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.583399

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,769 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 716

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • human faces (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • beige

Composition

  • two-by-two grid
  • centered faces
  • partial cropping bottom-left face

Dense Caption

The image shows four distinct human faces rendered in low-resolution pixels. Top-left face has brown hair, neutral expression, visible eyes and nose. Top-right face has short light-colored hair, smiling mouth, visible eyes. Bottom-left face is partially cropped at the bottom edge, showing forehead to chin with a neutral expression. Bottom-right face is centered below top two faces, displaying a broad smile with visible teeth. All faces have pale skin tones. Background consists of dark gray and black pixels with scattered light blue and white highlights. The image has no visible text or symbols.

Description

  • Four pixelated faces arranged in a two-by-two grid against a dark background with light and dark gray tones.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four pixelated faces grid
  • buddy icons celebrity images
  • low resolution human portraits
  • dark background smiling neutral faces

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • human faces

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • four pixelated human faces
  • two-by-two grid layout
  • dark background with gray and blue accents
  • top-left face brown hair neutral expression
  • top-right face short light hair smiling
  • bottom-left face partially cropped
  • bottom-right face broad smile teeth
  • pale skin tones on all faces
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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
200803150946001531146379
Archive entry
200803150946001531146379.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803150946001531146379.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803150946001531146379.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016