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Group of pixelated figures in dark and light clothing with varied hair colors, some holding objects, against a blurred background.

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Source terms

Composition

  • group
  • central figures
  • background blur

Dense Caption

Pixelated group of seven figures with light skin tones; two central figures wear dark hair, one with short dark hair and another with longer dark hair; two figures on the left wear dark clothing, three on the right wear light gray or white clothing; one figure holds a white cylindrical object; background contains indistinct brown and red tones; all figures have simplified facial features with visible eyes and mouths; no text or symbols are visible; image has low resolution with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • Group of pixelated figures in dark and light clothing with varied hair colors, some holding objects, against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200907242226131245118171

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • group of figures pixelated
  • dark hair light gray clothing
  • cylindrical object brown background
  • seven figures low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Wordwall

  • seven figures
  • light skin tones
  • dark hair
  • light gray clothing
  • dark clothing
  • white cylindrical object
  • brown background
  • simplified facial features
  • no text
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907242226131245118171
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8bd5c6f68a784dfd9916fdad53adb39d6d25621fe90db0707f680952812e008.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
a8bd5c6f68a784df
SHA-256
a8bd5c6f68a784dfd9916fdad53adb39d6d25621fe90db0707f680952812e008
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000598

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Group of pixelated figures in dark and light clothing with varied hair colors, some holding objects, against a blurred background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,651 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 737

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cylindrical object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • dark
  • brown
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • group
  • central figures
  • background blur

Dense Caption

Pixelated group of seven figures with light skin tones; two central figures wear dark hair, one with short dark hair and another with longer dark hair; two figures on the left wear dark clothing, three on the right wear light gray or white clothing; one figure holds a white cylindrical object; background contains indistinct brown and red tones; all figures have simplified facial features with visible eyes and mouths; no text or symbols are visible; image has low resolution with heavy pixelation.

Description

  • Group of pixelated figures in dark and light clothing with varied hair colors, some holding objects, against a blurred background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200907242226131245118171

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • group of figures pixelated
  • dark hair light gray clothing
  • cylindrical object brown background
  • seven figures low resolution

Objects

  • cylindrical object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is heavily pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • figures

Wordwall

  • seven figures
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  • dark hair
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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
200907242226131245118171
Archive entry
200907242226131245118171.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907242226131245118171.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907242226131245118171.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016