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Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background.

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Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background.

Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Three pixelated human faces arranged horizontally in a single row. The left face has light brown hair and a neutral expression. The middle face has dark hair and a slight smile. The right face has dark hair and a neutral expression. White pixelated text 'S4L<3' is overlaid in the upper center. The background consists of brown tones on the left and blue tones on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three faces pixelated
  • S4L<3 text
  • brown blue background
  • horizontal row faces
  • neutral expression faces
  • low resolution pixel art
  • white text overlay
  • light brown dark hair faces

Subjects

  • human faces

Visible Text

  • S4L<3

Wordwall

  • three faces
  • horizontal row
  • light brown hair
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
  • white text
  • S4L<3
  • brown background
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808153519499316893
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc98124136e9b8b9164ead54c843665052e624f61d1bba1b980778304cbc92fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
fc98124136e9b8b9
SHA-256
fc98124136e9b8b9164ead54c843665052e624f61d1bba1b980778304cbc92fa
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.035962

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,129 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 633

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • white
  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • pink

Composition

  • horizontal row
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Three pixelated human faces arranged horizontally in a single row. The left face has light brown hair and a neutral expression. The middle face has dark hair and a slight smile. The right face has dark hair and a neutral expression. White pixelated text 'S4L<3' is overlaid in the upper center. The background consists of brown tones on the left and blue tones on the right. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Three pixelated faces in a horizontal row with white text 'S4L<3' overlaid on a brown and blue background.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three faces pixelated
  • S4L<3 text
  • brown blue background
  • horizontal row faces
  • neutral expression faces
  • low resolution pixel art
  • white text overlay
  • light brown dark hair faces

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • human faces

Visible Text

  • S4L<3

Wordwall

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  • horizontal row
  • light brown hair
  • dark hair
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
  • white text
  • S4L<3
  • brown background
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:53 UTC
Run
52
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
20070808153519499316893
Archive entry
20070808153519499316893.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808153519499316893.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808153519499316893.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016