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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • dark background
  • minimalist composition

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified humanoid form with oversized circular head, smooth curved torso, and indistinct limbs. The figure's right side shows brighter pixels suggesting light reflection or highlight on the head and upper body. Background consists of solid dark tones surrounding the central figure. Pixelation is prominent throughout, creating blocky appearance typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710271814191196036973

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art humanoid
  • oversized head pixel figure
  • dark background pixel icon
  • stylized gray cartoon figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • oversized circular head
  • smooth curved torso
  • indistinct limbs
  • dark background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710271814191196036973
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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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/07/0749e5d53ed920db82a0b3a9ab7279386c05c4f63440bb9e073673ce37be6081.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
0749e5d53ed920db
SHA-256
0749e5d53ed920db82a0b3a9ab7279386c05c4f63440bb9e073673ce37be6081
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:41 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.238016

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,418 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • simplified form (style, 0.80)
  • stylized humanoid figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • dark background
  • minimalist composition

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified humanoid form with oversized circular head, smooth curved torso, and indistinct limbs. The figure's right side shows brighter pixels suggesting light reflection or highlight on the head and upper body. Background consists of solid dark tones surrounding the central figure. Pixelation is prominent throughout, creating blocky appearance typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized figure with large rounded head and curved body against dark 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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710271814191196036973

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art humanoid
  • oversized head pixel figure
  • dark background pixel icon
  • stylized gray cartoon figure

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • simplified form

Subjects

  • stylized humanoid figure

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • oversized circular head
  • smooth curved torso
  • indistinct limbs
  • dark background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200710271814191196036973
Archive entry
200710271814191196036973.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710271814191196036973.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710271814191196036973.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016