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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and backgrounds

Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • top-left grayscale
  • top-right side-by-side
  • bottom-left single figure

Dense Caption

Top-left: grayscale portrait of person with long dark hair smiling broadly; top-right: two people side-by-side, one wearing light-colored cap and blue shirt, both smiling; bottom-left: person with dark headwear smiling widely against blurred background with lights; all portraits are pixelated with visible dithering. Top-right image shows slight color shift compared to other panels.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait long dark hair smiling
  • two people side-by-side light cap blue shirt
  • single figure dark headwear blurred background lights
  • pixelated dithered portraits

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique expressions and backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated dithered 2x2 grid portraits

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • long dark hair
  • broad smile
  • light-colored cap
  • blue shirt
  • side-by-side
  • dark headwear
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805131529162017800530
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
fd488f694072f14a
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095857

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Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions and backgrounds

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 646

Review tags

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  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • joyful (mood, 0.80)
  • blurred background lights (object, 0.80)
  • dark headwear (object, 0.80)
  • light colored cap (object, 0.80)
  • long dark hair (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • grayscale
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four distinct portraits
  • top-left grayscale
  • top-right side-by-side
  • bottom-left single figure

Dense Caption

Top-left: grayscale portrait of person with long dark hair smiling broadly; top-right: two people side-by-side, one wearing light-colored cap and blue shirt, both smiling; bottom-left: person with dark headwear smiling widely against blurred background with lights; all portraits are pixelated with visible dithering. Top-right image shows slight color shift compared to other panels.

Description

  • Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a , each with unique expressions 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

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful
  • joyful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale portrait long dark hair smiling
  • two people side-by-side light cap blue shirt
  • single figure dark headwear blurred background lights
  • pixelated dithered portraits

Objects

  • long dark hair
  • light-colored cap
  • dark headwear
  • blurred background lights

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique expressions and backgrounds.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated dithered 2x2 grid portraits

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • grayscale portrait
  • long dark hair
  • broad smile
  • light-colored cap
  • blue shirt
  • side-by-side
  • dark headwear
  • blurred background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
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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
200805131529162017800530
Archive entry
200805131529162017800530.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805131529162017800530.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805131529162017800530.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016