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A pixelated character with glowing eyes and a hooded cloak appears next to a red banner with partial white text.

A pixelated character with glowing eyes and a hooded cloak appears next to a red banner with partial white text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character on left
  • banner on right
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with a dark hooded cloak, glowing pink eyes, and a wide, toothy grin. The character's face is partially obscured by the hood. To the right, a red rectangular banner with white pixelated text displays the letters 'ISTURBE' against a black background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and color banding.

Description

  • A pixelated character with glowing eyes and a hooded cloak appears next to a red banner with partial white text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hooded character glowing eyes
  • red banner white text
  • pixelated disturbing character
  • glowing pink eyes hooded cloak

Visible Text

  • ISTURBE

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • hooded cloak
  • glowing pink eyes
  • toothy grin
  • red banner
  • white text
  • black background
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • color banding

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090115175832446200130
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/11/11c36c032c68f0e1c0696212aa9f1ddfe13250d9453c520302d5c1bf25f977cd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
11c36c032c68f0e1
SHA-256
11c36c032c68f0e1c0696212aa9f1ddfe13250d9453c520302d5c1bf25f977cd
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.153441

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
106
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A pixelated character with glowing eyes and a hooded cloak appears next to a red banner with partial white text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,695 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 610

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • disturbing (mood, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • red banner (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hooded character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • gray
  • pink

Composition

  • character on left
  • banner on right
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with a dark hooded cloak, glowing pink eyes, and a wide, toothy grin. The character's face is partially obscured by the hood. To the right, a red rectangular banner with white pixelated text displays the letters 'ISTURBE' against a black background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and color banding.

Description

  • A pixelated character with glowing eyes and a hooded cloak appears next to a red banner with partial white text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • menacing
  • disturbing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hooded character glowing eyes
  • red banner white text
  • pixelated disturbing character
  • glowing pink eyes hooded cloak

Objects

  • red banner

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hooded character

Visible Text

  • ISTURBE

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • hooded cloak
  • glowing pink eyes
  • toothy grin
  • red banner
  • white text
  • black background
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • color banding
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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
20090115175832446200130
Archive entry
20090115175832446200130.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090115175832446200130.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090115175832446200130.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016