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Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a , each with a name label below

Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a , each with a name label below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left portrait
  • top-right portrait
  • bottom-left portrait
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown-haired young man in white shirt with dark collar, smiling, labeled 'Paul' in white text on dark background. Top-right: dark-haired young man in black shirt, neutral expression, labeled 'Jack' in white text on dark background. Bottom-left: black-and-white portrait of young man with dark hair and light cap, labeled 'Alex' in white text on dark background. Bottom-right: empty light gray square. All portraits are pixelated, with visible compression artifacts. The top-right image has a small blue and white background element with a red heart symbol.

Description

  • Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a , each with a name label below

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810131933071098553215

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • young men portraits
  • Paul Jack Alex names
  • pixelated buddy icons
  • red heart blue background
  • gray square empty space
  • black-and-white portrait light cap
  • smiling neutral expression
  • white text labels brown dark hair

Objects

  • red heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with a name label below.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: young men portraits 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Paul
  • Jack
  • Alex

Wordwall

  • four portraits
  • brown hair
  • dark hair
  • white shirt
  • black shirt
  • light cap
  • pixelated
  • white text labels
  • red heart symbol
  • blue background element
  • gray square
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • black-and-white portrait
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810131933071098553215
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a3c410b3f70a7400
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097561

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a , each with a name label below

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,125 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 835

Review tags

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  • color (style, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • young men (subject, 0.80)

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  • brown
  • dark
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • top-left portrait
  • top-right portrait
  • bottom-left portrait
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown-haired young man in white shirt with dark collar, smiling, labeled 'Paul' in white text on dark background. Top-right: dark-haired young man in black shirt, neutral expression, labeled 'Jack' in white text on dark background. Bottom-left: black-and-white portrait of young man with dark hair and light cap, labeled 'Alex' in white text on dark background. Bottom-right: empty light gray square. All portraits are pixelated, with visible compression artifacts. The top-right image has a small blue and white background element with a red heart symbol.

Description

  • Four distinct portrait images of young men arranged in a , each with a name label below

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810131933071098553215

Mood

  • smiling
  • neutral

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  • Paul Jack Alex names
  • pixelated buddy icons
  • red heart blue background
  • gray square empty space
  • black-and-white portrait light cap
  • smiling neutral expression
  • white text labels brown dark hair

Objects

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Style

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  • grayscale
  • color

Subjects

  • young men

Visible Text

  • Paul
  • Jack
  • Alex

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  • brown hair
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  • white shirt
  • black shirt
  • light cap
  • pixelated
  • white text labels
  • red heart symbol
  • blue background element
  • gray square
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • black-and-white portrait
  • compression artifacts
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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
200810131933071098553215
Archive entry
200810131933071098553215.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810131933071098553215.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810131933071098553215.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016