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Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure with yellow-and-red headpiece.

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Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure with yellow-and-red headpiece.

Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure w…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

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Animation

  • frame 1: green-haired elf in forest
  • frame 2: blue-armored figure with red eye and shield
  • frame 3: white-and-blue armored figure with yellow headpiece

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct character poses: a green-haired elf-like figure in a forest, a blue-armored figure with a red eye and shield, and a white-and-blue armored figure with a yellow headpiece.

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The animation shows a character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background (top-left). The scene transitions to a blue-armored figure with a red eye and a large red circular shield (top-right). The final frame shows a white-and-blue armored figure with a yellow-and-red headpiece and a large white shield (bottom-left). All figures are pixelated with limited color palettes typical of early digital art. The background changes from green foliage to a brown interior setting.

Description

Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure with yellow-and-red headpiece.

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

  • green elf forest
  • blue armor red eye shield
  • white blue armor yellow headpiece
  • pixel art animation
  • early digital character
  • red shield white shield
  • forest brown background
  • elf ears pointed ears

Wordwall

  • green hair
  • pointed ears
  • forest background
  • blue armor
  • red eye
  • red shield
  • white armor
  • yellow headpiece
  • white shield
  • brown background
  • pixelated art
  • early digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011101805164622694767
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/097f6df69e6bc696d6b16cf85c18e49f4e68c520105703f37c6a3e18e1fac219.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
097f6df69e6bc696
SHA-256
097f6df69e6bc696d6b16cf85c18e49f4e68c520105703f37c6a3e18e1fac219
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 16:37 UTC
Run
1355
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000585

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 05:01 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023126

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.160052

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure with yellow-and-red headpiece.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:04 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,004 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 753

Review tags

  • pose (action, 0.80)
  • transition (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • heroic (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • red shield (object, 0.80)
  • white shield (object, 0.80)
  • early digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue armored figure (subject, 0.80)
  • elf like character (subject, 0.80)
  • white and blue armored figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transition
  • pose

Animation

  • frame 1: green-haired elf in forest
  • frame 2: blue-armored figure with red eye and shield
  • frame 3: white-and-blue armored figure with yellow headpiece

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct character poses: a green-haired elf-like figure in a forest, a blue-armored figure with a red eye and shield, and a white-and-blue armored figure with a yellow headpiece.

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • yellow
  • brown

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left

Dense Caption

The animation shows a character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background (top-left). The scene transitions to a blue-armored figure with a red eye and a large red circular shield (top-right). The final frame shows a white-and-blue armored figure with a yellow-and-red headpiece and a large white shield (bottom-left). All figures are pixelated with limited color palettes typical of early digital art. The background changes from green foliage to a brown interior setting.

Description

Pixelated character with green hair and pointed ears in a forest background, transitioning to a blue-armored figure with red eye and shield, then a white-and-blue armored figure with yellow-and-red headpiece.

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

  • mysterious
  • heroic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green elf forest
  • blue armor red eye shield
  • white blue armor yellow headpiece
  • pixel art animation
  • early digital character
  • red shield white shield
  • forest brown background
  • elf ears pointed ears

Objects

  • red shield
  • white shield

Style

  • pixel art
  • early digital

Subjects

  • elf-like character
  • blue-armored figure
  • white-and-blue armored figure

Wordwall

  • green hair
  • pointed ears
  • forest background
  • blue armor
  • red eye
  • red shield
  • white armor
  • yellow headpiece
  • white shield
  • brown background
  • pixelated art
  • early digital
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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
2011101805164622694767
Archive entry
2011101805164622694767.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#2011101805164622694767.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011101805164622694767.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016