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Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom.

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Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom.

Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four figures in a row
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures in dark clothing pose against a green background. The leftmost figure has long dark hair and a black shirt. The second figure has short dark hair and a black shirt. The third figure has short dark hair and a brown shirt. The fourth figure has short dark hair and a black shirt. Large white block letters spell "BFM" across the bottom. The background is a green gradient. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811031601211252755269
  • 20081103160630146847550

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four figures green background white text BFM
  • pixelated figures dark clothing BFM
  • BFM text four figures
  • green background pixelated figures

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • BFM

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • dark clothing
  • green background
  • white text
  • BFM
  • pixelated
  • long hair
  • short hair
  • brown shirt
  • black shirts

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811031601211252755269
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081103160630146847550
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/dd50f5ff3eb02c6b41c3b18e460183fd5b70ea7bdc5a67cd779bbeff4243cb4e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
dd50f5ff3eb02c6b
SHA-256
dd50f5ff3eb02c6b41c3b18e460183fd5b70ea7bdc5a67cd779bbeff4243cb4e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085344

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,094 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,131, response 749

Review tags

  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • four figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • posing

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • four figures in a row
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Four pixelated human figures in dark clothing pose against a green background. The leftmost figure has long dark hair and a black shirt. The second figure has short dark hair and a black shirt. The third figure has short dark hair and a brown shirt. The fourth figure has short dark hair and a black shirt. Large white block letters spell "BFM" across the bottom. The background is a green gradient. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • Four pixelated figures in dark clothing pose against a green background with large white text reading "BFM" at the bottom.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811031601211252755269
  • 20081103160630146847550

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four figures green background white text BFM
  • pixelated figures dark clothing BFM
  • BFM text four figures
  • green background pixelated figures

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • four figures

Visible Text

  • BFM

Wordwall

  • four figures
  • dark clothing
  • green background
  • white text
  • BFM
  • pixelated
  • long hair
  • short hair
  • brown shirt
  • black shirts
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Full source records (2)

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
200811031601211252755269
Archive entry
200811031601211252755269.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811031601211252755269.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811031601211252755269.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081103160630146847550
Archive entry
20081103160630146847550.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081103160630146847550.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081103160630146847550.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016