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Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-colored tops.

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Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-colored tops.

Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-c…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side figures
  • waist-cropped
  • central figure prominent

Dense Caption

The image shows three figures positioned side-by-side. The leftmost figure has light brown hair and wears a white top. The central figure has brown hair, wears dark clothing, and holds a microphone. The rightmost figure has dark hair and wears a light-colored top. The background is a blue-green gradient with pixelated texture. All figures are cropped at the waist. The image is static with no visible motion. The color palette includes shades of blue, green, white, brown, and dark gray. The rendering style is pixelated, consistent with low-resolution digital art from the late 2000s.

Description

Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-colored tops.

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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901030849041316648978

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three figures microphone blue-green background
  • central figure dark clothing microphone
  • light brown hair white top dark hair light top
  • pixelated figures waist-cropped

Wordwall

  • three figures
  • blue-green gradient background
  • central figure holds microphone
  • left figure light brown hair
  • right figure dark hair
  • central figure dark clothing
  • left figure white top
  • right figure light top
  • pixelated rendering
  • waist-cropped figures

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901030849041316648978
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
9e3f72ac652ab2bb
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-colored tops.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,833 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 767

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
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  • green (color, 0.80)
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Actions

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Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • white
  • brown
  • dark gray

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  • side-by-side figures
  • waist-cropped
  • central figure prominent

Dense Caption

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Description

Three figures stand in a row against a blue-green gradient background; the central figure wears dark clothing and holds a microphone, while the left and right figures wear light-colored tops.

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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901030849041316648978

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • central figure dark clothing microphone
  • light brown hair white top dark hair light top
  • pixelated figures waist-cropped

Objects

  • microphone

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • three figures
  • microphone

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  • central figure dark clothing
  • left figure white top
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  • pixelated rendering
  • waist-cropped figures
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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
200901030849041316648978
Archive entry
200901030849041316648978.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901030849041316648978.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901030849041316648978.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016