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Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background elements

Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-middle
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-middle
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person in blue shirt with yellow collar, brown hair, light skin, neutral expression. Top-middle: person with pink headband, dark purple shirt, white necklace, light skin, smiling. Top-right: person in yellow shirt with white text, green pants, dark skin, smiling. Bottom-left: person in teal shirt, dark hair, light skin, neutral expression. Bottom-middle: person in white shirt, dark hair, light skin, neutral expression, seated. Bottom-right: person in yellow shirt, green pants, dark skin, smiling. Backgrounds include partial text and colors. All portraits are pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background elements

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200908212304041196306706
  • 20090821230422623152500

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt yellow collar person
  • pink headband purple shirt person
  • yellow shirt green pants person
  • teal shirt person
  • white shirt person
  • pixelated portraits
  • smiling neutral expression people
  • compression artifacts portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation and compression artifacts present
  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique clothing and background elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid portraits

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • ID
  • S
  • 00

Wordwall

  • blue shirt
  • yellow collar
  • pink headband
  • white necklace
  • yellow shirt
  • green pants
  • teal shirt
  • white shirt
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark skin
  • brown hair
  • dark hair
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • partial text backgrounds

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908212304041196306706
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090821230422623152500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
9.2 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/96cac13582c7ac9fd381c0232072bd2c7a8d927d774d6a91f53885a107b93e3b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
96cac13582c7ac9f
SHA-256
96cac13582c7ac9fd381c0232072bd2c7a8d927d774d6a91f53885a107b93e3b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094051

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932378onnx/unsafe0.094051onnx/nsfw0.057278onnx/nsfl0.036773
Enrichment records (1)
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Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background elements

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,939 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,213, response 997

Review tags

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  • happy (mood, 0.80)
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  • headband (object, 0.80)
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  • compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • pink
  • purple
  • white
  • teal
  • green
  • brown
  • dark skin
  • light skin

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-middle
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-middle
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Top-left: person in blue shirt with yellow collar, brown hair, light skin, neutral expression. Top-middle: person with pink headband, dark purple shirt, white necklace, light skin, smiling. Top-right: person in yellow shirt with white text, green pants, dark skin, smiling. Bottom-left: person in teal shirt, dark hair, light skin, neutral expression. Bottom-middle: person in white shirt, dark hair, light skin, neutral expression, seated. Bottom-right: person in yellow shirt, green pants, dark skin, smiling. Backgrounds include partial text and colors. All portraits are pixelated with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique clothing and background elements

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200908212304041196306706
  • 20090821230422623152500

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shirt yellow collar person
  • pink headband purple shirt person
  • yellow shirt green pants person
  • teal shirt person
  • white shirt person
  • pixelated portraits
  • smiling neutral expression people
  • compression artifacts portraits

Objects

  • headband
  • necklace
  • shirt
  • pants

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation and compression artifacts present
  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique clothing and background elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid portraits

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

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  • 00

Wordwall

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  • pink headband
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  • green pants
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  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • light skin
  • dark skin
  • brown hair
  • dark hair
  • pixelated
  • compression artifacts
  • partial text backgrounds
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Full source records (2)

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
200908212304041196306706
Archive entry
200908212304041196306706.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908212304041196306706.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908212304041196306706.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20090821230422623152500
Archive entry
20090821230422623152500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090821230422623152500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090821230422623152500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016