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Four anime-style character icons arranged in a , each with distinct color palettes and text elements

Four anime-style character icons arranged in a , each with distinct color palettes and text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Top-left: Gray-haired anime character with red eyes, wearing a white and gray outfit, partially overlaid by '2016' text. Top-right: Black-and-white helmeted character with a large black visor, overlaid by 'DEATH' text. Bottom-left: Dark-haired anime character with a blue and gray outfit, partially overlaid by 'Top' text. Bottom-right: Green-clad anime character with a blue headband, holding a sign with 'YO' text, overlaid by 'U' text. All icons use pixelated rendering with limited color palettes.

Description

  • Four anime-style character icons arranged in a , each with distinct color palettes and text 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: 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
  • 200906281618021201051027

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character 2016 text
  • DEATH helmet text
  • YO sign character
  • pixelated anime icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four anime-style character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with distinct color palettes and text elements.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid anime icons

Subjects

  • anime character

Visible Text

  • 2016
  • DEATH
  • Top
  • YO
  • U

Wordwall

  • gray-haired anime character
  • red eyes
  • white and gray outfit
  • 2016 text
  • black-and-white helmet
  • black visor
  • DEATH text
  • dark-haired anime character
  • blue and gray outfit
  • Top text
  • green-clad character
  • blue headband
  • YO text
  • U text
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906281618021201051027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9e223049a4fe7124800e74dec6fae099e267f0998f869ff88573816c585664dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
9e223049a4fe7124
SHA-256
9e223049a4fe7124800e74dec6fae099e267f0998f869ff88573816c585664dc
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 13:26 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010270

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
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1135
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Four anime-style character icons arranged in a , each with distinct color palettes and text elements

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,103 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 756

Review tags

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  • helmet (object, 0.80)
  • sign (object, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
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  • anime character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding sign

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  • gray
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  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • green
  • brown

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Top-left: Gray-haired anime character with red eyes, wearing a white and gray outfit, partially overlaid by '2016' text. Top-right: Black-and-white helmeted character with a large black visor, overlaid by 'DEATH' text. Bottom-left: Dark-haired anime character with a blue and gray outfit, partially overlaid by 'Top' text. Bottom-right: Green-clad anime character with a blue headband, holding a sign with 'YO' text, overlaid by 'U' text. All icons use pixelated rendering with limited color palettes.

Description

  • Four anime-style character icons arranged in a , each with distinct color palettes and text 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200906281618021201051027

Mood

  • mysterious
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • DEATH helmet text
  • YO sign character
  • pixelated anime icons

Objects

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  • helmet
  • headband

Preprocessing Notes

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  • DEATH
  • Top
  • YO
  • U

Wordwall

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  • red eyes
  • white and gray outfit
  • 2016 text
  • black-and-white helmet
  • black visor
  • DEATH text
  • dark-haired anime character
  • blue and gray outfit
  • Top text
  • green-clad character
  • blue headband
  • YO text
  • U text
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200906281618021201051027
Archive entry
200906281618021201051027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906281618021201051027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906281618021201051027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016