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Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue background

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Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue background

Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • two-part
  • left gray background
  • right blue background

Dense Caption

Four individuals stand side-by-side against a gray backdrop. From left to right: first person wears dark jacket and jeans; second person wears white top and dark pants; third person wears dark jacket and pants with long hair; fourth person wears dark top and pants. Right side features solid blue background with cyan pixelated text reading "SUGAR WE'RE going Down". All text uses uppercase letters with mixed case for "going". Pixelation is visible across entire image.

Description

  • Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four people cyan text blue background
  • SUGAR WE'RE going Down
  • gray background blue background
  • pixelated cyan text
  • four individuals side-by-side
  • dark clothing gray backdrop
  • cyan text blue background
  • SUGAR WE'RE going Down cyan

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Four people stand in a row against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue background.

Visible Text

  • SUGAR
  • WE'RE
  • going
  • Down

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  • SUGAR WE'RE going Down
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  • solid blue
  • side-by-side
  • dark pants
  • mixed case text
  • gray backdrop
  • cyan pixelated text
  • four individuals
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070801193300861152193
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9b/9b34ce1ed5adaabe6beb9e7ab5a819572ee47a415cda0bd1123ffb305736d2a8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
9b34ce1ed5adaabe
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
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August 6, 2026 at 21:47 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue background

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,586 ms
Tokens
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Dense Caption

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Description

  • Four people stand in a against a gray background; the right side displays cyan pixelated text on a blue 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

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Run
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v5
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Error
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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
20070801193300861152193
Archive entry
20070801193300861152193.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070801193300861152193.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070801193300861152193.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016