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Four people in a horizontal row, each with distinct clothing colors and hairstyles, against a dark background with blue speckles.

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Four people in a horizontal row, each with distinct clothing colors and hairstyles, against a dark background with blue speckles.

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Composition

  • horizontal row
  • tightly cropped
  • upper bodies

Dense Caption

Four individuals positioned side-by-side horizontally. Leftmost person has long dark hair and wears a black top with purple accents. Second person has short light hair and wears a black top. Third person has short dark hair and wears a black top with a blue section. Rightmost person has short light hair and wears a yellow top. Background is dark gray with scattered blue speckles. All faces are pixelated. No visible text or props. Composition is tightly cropped to show upper bodies.

Description

  • Four people in a horizontal row, each with distinct clothing colors and hairstyles, against a dark background with blue speckles.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090103110050452078185
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four people horizontal row
  • black purple blue yellow clothing
  • dark gray background blue speckles
  • pixelated faces upper bodies
  • long dark hair short light hair
  • tightly cropped static image
  • blue section yellow top
  • black top purple accents

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  • four people
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  • short dark hair
  • black top
  • purple accents
  • blue section
  • yellow top
  • dark gray background
  • blue speckles
  • pixelated faces
  • tightly cropped
  • upper bodies

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090103110050452078185
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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GIF
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50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
d94b20ceff745ce6
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
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1140
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Four people in a horizontal row, each with distinct clothing colors and hairstyles, against a dark background with blue speckles.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,141 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 757

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  • blue speckles

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • tightly cropped
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Dense Caption

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Description

  • Four people in a horizontal row, each with distinct clothing colors and hairstyles, against a dark background with blue speckles.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
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  • 20090103110050452078185
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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
20090103110050452078185
Archive entry
20090103110050452078185.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090103110050452078185.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090103110050452078185.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016