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A static image with three colored text boxes over a grayscale background showing people in chairs.

A static image with three colored text boxes over a grayscale background showing people in chairs. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three text boxes positioned top-left, top-right, bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image shows a grayscale background of people seated in rows, likely an audience. Overlaid are three distinct text boxes: top-left is cyan with pink text reading "SHELM" and below it another cyan box with pink text "NHI"; top-right is magenta with green text reading "AMBER!" and below it another magenta box with green text "JENNIE"; bottom-center is blue with green text reading "BRIAN!". All text uses a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with three colored text boxes over a grayscale background showing people in chairs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802061549271219360648

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SHELM NHI AMBER! JENNIE BRIAN!
  • cyan magenta blue text boxes
  • grayscale background people seated
  • pixelated font pink green cyan magenta blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: people seated in rows
  • quarantined subjects: people seated in rows

Visible Text

  • SHELM
  • NHI
  • AMBER!
  • JENNIE
  • BRIAN!

Wordwall

  • cyan text boxes
  • magenta text boxes
  • blue text box
  • grayscale background
  • people seated in
  • pixelated font
  • text: SHELM, NHI, AMBER!, JENNIE, BRIAN!
  • pink and green text colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802061549271219360648
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/eb/eb7221fada71155a5fcc340743f21baae817ad99a1dafb05453944028c599f0d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
eb7221fada71155a
SHA-256
eb7221fada71155a5fcc340743f21baae817ad99a1dafb05453944028c599f0d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134535

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with three colored text boxes over a grayscale background showing people in chairs.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:47 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,915 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 678

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay on grayscale background (style, 0.80)
  • people seated in (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • grayscale

Composition

  • three text boxes positioned top-left, top-right, bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image shows a grayscale background of people seated in rows, likely an audience. Overlaid are three distinct text boxes: top-left is cyan with pink text reading "SHELM" and below it another cyan box with pink text "NHI"; top-right is magenta with green text reading "AMBER!" and below it another magenta box with green text "JENNIE"; bottom-center is blue with green text reading "BRIAN!". All text uses a pixelated font style.

Description

  • A static image with three colored text boxes over a grayscale background showing people in chairs.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802061549271219360648

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SHELM NHI AMBER! JENNIE BRIAN!
  • cyan magenta blue text boxes
  • grayscale background people seated
  • pixelated font pink green cyan magenta blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: people seated in rows
  • quarantined subjects: people seated in rows

Style

  • pixelated font
  • text overlay on grayscale background

Subjects

  • people seated in

Visible Text

  • SHELM
  • NHI
  • AMBER!
  • JENNIE
  • BRIAN!

Wordwall

  • cyan text boxes
  • magenta text boxes
  • blue text box
  • grayscale background
  • people seated in
  • pixelated font
  • text: SHELM, NHI, AMBER!, JENNIE, BRIAN!
  • pink and green text colors
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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
200802061549271219360648
Archive entry
200802061549271219360648.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802061549271219360648.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802061549271219360648.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016