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Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds

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Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds

Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • consistent white backgrounds
  • uniform character sizing

Dense Caption

Six pixelated character portraits displayed in two rows of three. Top row left: blue spiky hair, black hoodie, head turned down-left; top row middle: brown hair, black hoodie, stern expression; top row right: purple long hair, black hoodie, side profile with necklace. Bottom row left: light gray spiky hair, black hoodie, back view; bottom row middle: red spiky hair, black hoodie, side profile; bottom row right: blonde spiky hair, black hoodie, front-facing expression. All portraits have white backgrounds and consistent pixel-art style.

Description

  • Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters pixel art six portraits
  • blue brown purple gray red blonde hair white background
  • stern expression side profile back view necklace
  • VII VIII text character

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image with six distinct character views.
  • quarantined description: Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: VII VIII text character grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Visible Text

  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII

Visually Supported Entities

  • VII
  • VIII

Wordwall

  • pixel art
  • six characters
  • white background
  • black hoodies
  • blue hair
  • brown hair
  • purple hair
  • gray hair
  • red hair
  • blonde hair
  • stern expression
  • side profile
  • back view
  • necklace
  • VII text
  • VIII text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902191841271544023072
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
a76c3df1b96ea59f
SHA-256
a76c3df1b96ea59f5bc09ed504efd4b55a8b0f36d7bba268d94acf7141be12e3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090071

OpenAI category scores

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Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,981 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 796

Review tags

  • back view (action, 0.80)
  • front facing expression (action, 0.80)
  • head turned down left (action, 0.80)
  • side profile (action, 0.80)
  • stern expression (action, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
  • necklace (object, 0.80)
  • anime inspired (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anime style figures (subject, 0.80)
  • male characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turned down-left
  • stern expression
  • side profile
  • back view
  • front-facing expression

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • purple
  • gray
  • red
  • blonde
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • consistent white backgrounds
  • uniform character sizing

Dense Caption

Six pixelated character portraits displayed in two rows of three. Top row left: blue spiky hair, black hoodie, head turned down-left; top row middle: brown hair, black hoodie, stern expression; top row right: purple long hair, black hoodie, side profile with necklace. Bottom row left: light gray spiky hair, black hoodie, back view; bottom row middle: red spiky hair, black hoodie, side profile; bottom row right: blonde spiky hair, black hoodie, front-facing expression. All portraits have white backgrounds and consistent pixel-art style.

Description

  • Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a , each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • serious
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters pixel art six portraits
  • blue brown purple gray red blonde hair white background
  • stern expression side profile back view necklace
  • VII VIII text character

Objects

  • necklace

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; static image with six distinct character views.
  • quarantined description: Six pixel-art character portraits arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with distinct hair colors and expressions against white backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: VII VIII text character grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixel art
  • anime-inspired
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • male characters
  • anime-style figures

Visible Text

  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII

Visually Supported Entities

  • VII
  • VIII

Wordwall

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  • six characters
  • white background
  • black hoodies
  • blue hair
  • brown hair
  • purple hair
  • gray hair
  • red hair
  • blonde hair
  • stern expression
  • side profile
  • back view
  • necklace
  • VII text
  • VIII text
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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
200902191841271544023072
Archive entry
200902191841271544023072.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902191841271544023072.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902191841271544023072.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016