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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels.

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels.

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • character positioned left of center
  • text labels top-right and bottom-left

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, a brown mouth, and a white shirt collar. The character's head is positioned slightly left of center against a solid light blue background. Text elements include 'Homer Simpson' in blue pixelated font at top right and 'Spider pig' in blue pixelated font at bottom left. The image is divided into four quadrants with the right-bottom quadrant being solid gray. The character's expression is neutral with a slight smile. The image uses a limited color palette of yellow, blue, brown, white, and gray.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer Simpson

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806221323382058097082

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Homer Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer Simpson pixelated icon
  • Spider pig text
  • blue background cartoon
  • four quadrant buddy icon
  • yellow character blue text
  • Homer Simpson Spider pig
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • buddy icon with text labels

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Homer Simpson
  • Spider pig

Visually Supported Entities

  • Homer Simpson

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • large white eyes
  • brown mouth
  • white shirt collar
  • light blue background
  • blue pixelated text
  • Homer Simpson
  • Spider pig
  • solid gray quadrant
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806221323382058097082
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1bb6741c55a3daa602c9a445a9bc371042eaa3fc17a8f0a92b2670fc40f3573e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
1bb6741c55a3daa6
SHA-256
1bb6741c55a3daa602c9a445a9bc371042eaa3fc17a8f0a92b2670fc40f3573e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001205

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,165 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 867

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • homer simpson (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • character positioned left of center
  • text labels top-right and bottom-left

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, a brown mouth, and a white shirt collar. The character's head is positioned slightly left of center against a solid light blue background. Text elements include 'Homer Simpson' in blue pixelated font at top right and 'Spider pig' in blue pixelated font at bottom left. The image is divided into four quadrants with the right-bottom quadrant being solid gray. The character's expression is neutral with a slight smile. The image uses a limited color palette of yellow, blue, brown, white, and gray.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes, and a brown mouth on a blue background with text labels.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer Simpson

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806221323382058097082

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Homer Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer Simpson pixelated icon
  • Spider pig text
  • blue background cartoon
  • four quadrant buddy icon
  • yellow character blue text
  • Homer Simpson Spider pig
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • buddy icon with text labels

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
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  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

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  • cartoon
  • low-resolution

Subjects

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Visible Text

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  • Spider pig

Visually Supported Entities

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Wordwall

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  • large white eyes
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  • Homer Simpson
  • Spider pig
  • solid gray quadrant
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant layout
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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
200806221323382058097082
Archive entry
200806221323382058097082.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806221323382058097082.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806221323382058097082.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016