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Four distinct headshots arranged in a , each with red text labels on black backgrounds

Four distinct headshots arranged in a , each with red text labels on black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • headshots only

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark hair and black clothing; top-right: person with short light-colored hair holding a microphone; bottom-left: person with dark hair wearing a black jacket; bottom-right: person with long brown hair. Red capital letters W, T, F appear in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners respectively. A red question mark appears in the bottom-right corner. All four images are arranged in a 2x2 grid layout on a dark background.

Description

  • Four distinct headshots arranged in a , each with red text labels on black backgrounds

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text W T F ?
  • headshots
  • microphone person
  • question mark icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct headshots arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with red text labels on black backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid headshots

Visible Text

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?

Wordwall

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?
  • red text
  • black backgrounds
  • microphone
  • dark hair
  • light-colored hair
  • long brown hair

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803161200211086894313
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
ba3a8d97ced33574
SHA-256
ba3a8d97ced33574c8b15d789b5deaa38b622f23bf53768f3c15b5926679ea31
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.175204

OpenAI category scores

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Four distinct headshots arranged in a , each with red text labels on black backgrounds

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,802 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 583

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • photographic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding microphone

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • dark gray
  • light brown
  • white

Composition

  • headshots only

Dense Caption

Top-left: person with dark hair and black clothing; top-right: person with short light-colored hair holding a microphone; bottom-left: person with dark hair wearing a black jacket; bottom-right: person with long brown hair. Red capital letters W, T, F appear in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners respectively. A red question mark appears in the bottom-right corner. All four images are arranged in a 2x2 grid layout on a dark background.

Description

  • Four distinct headshots arranged in a , each with red text labels on black backgrounds

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text W T F ?
  • headshots
  • microphone person
  • question mark icon

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct headshots arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with red text labels on black backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid headshots

Style

  • photographic
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?

Wordwall

  • W
  • T
  • F
  • ?
  • red text
  • black backgrounds
  • microphone
  • dark hair
  • light-colored hair
  • long brown 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
200803161200211086894313
Archive entry
200803161200211086894313.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803161200211086894313.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803161200211086894313.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016