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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and backgrounds.

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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and backgrounds.

Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and backgrounds. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 2x2 grid
  • four distinct portraits
  • no overlapping elements
  • no border

Dense Caption

Top-left: Red and yellow pixelated character with green accents, red background. Top-right: Green and pink pixelated character with white accents, pink background. Bottom-left: Dark-haired character in black clothing, light blue background. Bottom-right: Light-haired character in blue clothing, blue background. All portraits are pixelated with visible dithering, no text or symbols present.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and 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: 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red yellow green pink portraits
  • four distinct pixel art portraits
  • red pink light blue blue backgrounds
  • pixelated portraits no text
  • dithered pixel art grid
  • no facial expressions portraits
  • low-resolution character grid

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  • pixelated portraits
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  • green/pink character
  • dark-haired character
  • light-haired character
  • red background
  • pink background
  • light blue background
  • blue background
  • dithered pixels
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • distinct color schemes
  • no visible props
  • no facial expressions
  • no clothing details
  • no background elements
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080226144407350381553
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
dcd6f03eee886c29
SHA-256
dcd6f03eee886c29508fbb8acf1d820ee45364ca00d3a7c4f2a73baea8fd1920
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
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image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071216

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,987 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 720

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Dense Caption

Top-left: Red and yellow pixelated character with green accents, red background. Top-right: Green and pink pixelated character with white accents, pink background. Bottom-left: Dark-haired character in black clothing, light blue background. Bottom-right: Light-haired character in blue clothing, blue background. All portraits are pixelated with visible dithering, no text or symbols present.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and 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: 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

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  • low-resolution character grid

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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August 4, 2026 at 04:15 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20080226144407350381553
Archive entry
20080226144407350381553.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080226144407350381553.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080226144407350381553.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016