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A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated

A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • group portrait
  • centered subjects
  • repeated

Dense Caption

Four identical panels show the same image: three individuals wearing bright cyan hooded garments. The central figure has light brown hair and dark eyes; two other figures flank them on either side. All wear dark clothing beneath the hoods. Background is indistinct with blue and white tones suggesting foliage or blurred lights. Image quality is pixelated, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static repeated panel with no visible animation changes across observations
  • quarantined description: A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated panels.
  • quarantined composition: repeated panels

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • people
  • hooded garments

Wordwall

  • three people
  • cyan hooded garments
  • light brown hair
  • dark eyes
  • pixelated image
  • blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081006083720427580741
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
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a9679243f08a47eef318b5794f83295a6a1d3502c6271383306b2d3fe4dad800.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
a9679243f08a47ee
SHA-256
a9679243f08a47eef318b5794f83295a6a1d3502c6271383306b2d3fe4dad800
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087342

OpenAI category scores

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A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,536 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hooded garments (subject, 0.80)
  • people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • group portrait
  • centered subjects
  • repeated

Dense Caption

Four identical panels show the same image: three individuals wearing bright cyan hooded garments. The central figure has light brown hair and dark eyes; two other figures flank them on either side. All wear dark clothing beneath the hoods. Background is indistinct with blue and white tones suggesting foliage or blurred lights. Image quality is pixelated, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static repeated panel with no visible animation changes across observations
  • quarantined description: A group of people in blue hooded garments with a blurred background, displayed as four repeated panels.
  • quarantined composition: repeated panels

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • people
  • hooded garments

Visually Supported Entities

  • people
  • hooded garments

Wordwall

  • three people
  • cyan hooded garments
  • light brown hair
  • dark eyes
  • pixelated image
  • blue background
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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
20081006083720427580741
Archive entry
20081006083720427580741.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#20081006083720427580741.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081006083720427580741.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016