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Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a

Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical faces
  • solid background colors

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated cartoon faces arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each face has large circular eyes with dark pupils, a broad open mouth showing teeth, and brown eyebrows arched above the eyes. The background behind each face is solid-colored: top-left green, top-right purple, bottom-left pink, bottom-right yellow. All faces share identical facial features but are rendered in different color palettes for their skin tones and backgrounds.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • buddy-icons
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cartoon face
  • color variation cartoon faces
  • pixel art faces
  • solid background cartoon icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains four identical frames with color variations only
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a grid layout.
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 pixel art faces
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated cartoon face grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: franksicons
  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated cartoon face
  • large circular eyes
  • broad open mouth
  • brown eyebrows
  • green background
  • purple background
  • pink background
  • yellow background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080512170101873383749
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/20/20e2725ad97271b5f364849e63fceb1c759a3368bd5e9b52a569ffa27e882eb0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
20e2725ad97271b5
SHA-256
20e2725ad97271b5f364849e63fceb1c759a3368bd5e9b52a569ffa27e882eb0
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000076

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 20:39 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.674141

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,269 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 639

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • exaggerated (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • purple
  • pink
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • identical faces
  • solid background colors

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated cartoon faces arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each face has large circular eyes with dark pupils, a broad open mouth showing teeth, and brown eyebrows arched above the eyes. The background behind each face is solid-colored: top-left green, top-right purple, bottom-left pink, bottom-right yellow. All faces share identical facial features but are rendered in different color palettes for their skin tones and backgrounds.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • buddy-icons
  • humor

Mood

  • playful
  • exaggerated

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cartoon face
  • color variation cartoon faces
  • pixel art faces
  • solid background cartoon icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout contains four identical frames with color variations only
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon face with large eyes and a wide mouth, repeated in four color variations across a grid layout.
  • quarantined style: repetitive grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 pixel art faces
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated cartoon face grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity: franksicons
  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • cartoon face

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • pixelated cartoon face
  • large circular eyes
  • broad open mouth
  • brown eyebrows
  • green background
  • purple background
  • pink background
  • yellow background
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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
20080512170101873383749
Archive entry
20080512170101873383749.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#20080512170101873383749.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080512170101873383749.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016