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Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background.

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Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background.

Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Colors

  • light skin tones

Composition

  • centered faces
  • text on right side
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon shows three pixelated human faces in close-up. The central figure has short dark hair, visible eyebrows, eyes looking slightly left, and a neutral expression. To the right is another face partially visible; to the left is a third face also partially visible. All figures have light skin tones. On the right side of the image, against a solid dark red background, there is orange pixelated text reading "SEXIEST BAND EVER" in three lines.

Description

  • Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three people pixelated text
  • sexiest band ever icon
  • orange text dark red background
  • buddy icons celebrities

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in this frame

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

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • SEXIEST
  • BAND
  • EVER

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • three people
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • orange text
  • dark red background
  • pixelated faces
  • text: SEXIEST BAND EVER

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801111948271905471694
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b0/b083c3f1d13e010fa41fa958c2bc47d05986db5341b5aee079c77e7286760a66.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
b083c3f1d13e010f
SHA-256
b083c3f1d13e010fa41fa958c2bc47d05986db5341b5aee079c77e7286760a66
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082886

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 09:36 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tones (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • three people (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark red
  • orange
  • light skin tones
  • black

Composition

  • centered faces
  • text on right side
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon shows three pixelated human faces in close-up. The central figure has short dark hair, visible eyebrows, eyes looking slightly left, and a neutral expression. To the right is another face partially visible; to the left is a third face also partially visible. All figures have light skin tones. On the right side of the image, against a solid dark red background, there is orange pixelated text reading "SEXIEST BAND EVER" in three lines.

Description

  • Pixelated image of three people with dark hair and light skin, side-by-side on a dark background.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three people pixelated text
  • sexiest band ever icon
  • orange text dark red background
  • buddy icons celebrities

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in this frame

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
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • three people

Visible Text

  • SEXIEST
  • BAND
  • EVER

Visually Supported Entities

  • celebrities

Wordwall

  • three people
  • dark hair
  • light skin
  • neutral expression
  • orange text
  • dark red background
  • pixelated faces
  • text: SEXIEST BAND EVER
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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
200801111948271905471694
Archive entry
200801111948271905471694.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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#200801111948271905471694.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801111948271905471694.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016