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Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black.

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Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black.

Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: three figures in close group
  • right side: black background with red text and arrow

Dense Caption

Left figure has short rounded hair; middle figure has longer flowing hair; right figure has medium-length hair. All three faces show neutral expressions. Left figure wears a high-collared garment with visible lines suggesting folds. Middle figure's hair flows over shoulder. Right figure's face is partially obscured by angle. Background on left side is light gray and white pixelated pattern. On black background to the right, red pixelated text '3' appears next to small left-pointing arrow symbol. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black.

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 Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three anime figures grayscale text 3 arrow
  • grayscale anime faces red 3 black background
  • anime style three figures neutral expression
  • pixelated digital art gray white red

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame without visible animation changes

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

Visible Text

  • 3

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080427180005148838212

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  • grayscale faces
  • stylized hair
  • neutral expressions
  • high-collared garment
  • flowing middle hair
  • partially obscured right face
  • light background pattern
  • red '3' text
  • left-pointing arrow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080427180005148838212
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d5/d5507c697ba6846405c34ca2a48b7d3e40f0bcde84d74321668e62558899f8c4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
d5507c697ba68464
SHA-256
d5507c697ba6846405c34ca2a48b7d3e40f0bcde84d74321668e62558899f8c4
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 09:43 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002771

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 23:48 UTC
Run
1254
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
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107
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Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 09:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,003 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 803

Review tags

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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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  • high collared garment (object, 0.80)
  • partially obscured right face (object, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale faces (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized hair (subject, 0.80)
  • three anime style figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • left side: three figures in close group
  • right side: black background with red text and arrow

Dense Caption

Left figure has short rounded hair; middle figure has longer flowing hair; right figure has medium-length hair. All three faces show neutral expressions. Left figure wears a high-collared garment with visible lines suggesting folds. Middle figure's hair flows over shoulder. Right figure's face is partially obscured by angle. Background on left side is light gray and white pixelated pattern. On black background to the right, red pixelated text '3' appears next to small left-pointing arrow symbol. The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Three grayscale anime-style figures with stylized hair pose together on a light background, while red pixelated text '3' and arrow appear on black.

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 Only Entities

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  • celebrities
  • games
  • holidays
  • humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • grayscale anime faces red 3 black background
  • anime style three figures neutral expression
  • pixelated digital art gray white red

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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Style

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Subjects

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  • grayscale faces
  • stylized hair

Visible Text

  • 3

Visually Supported Entities

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  • 20080427180005148838212

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  • light background pattern
  • red '3' text
  • left-pointing arrow
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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
20080427180005148838212
Archive entry
20080427180005148838212.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080427180005148838212.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080427180005148838212.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016