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Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background.

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Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background.

Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • crab centered
  • black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background. The crab's body is circular with a rounded top. Its eyes are white with blue pupils. The claws are curved upward and positioned on either side of the head. The legs are thin and extend downward from the body. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange crab blue eyes
  • pixelated crab black background
  • crab raised claws
  • retro digital art crab

Wordwall

  • orange crab
  • blue eyes
  • raised claws
  • multiple legs
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • retro digital art
  • circular body
  • white eyes
  • blue pupils

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100517173416724119203
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
3352048445d35187
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
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Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 556

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • raised claws

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • crab centered
  • black background

Dense Caption

Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black background. The crab's body is circular with a rounded top. Its eyes are white with blue pupils. The claws are curved upward and positioned on either side of the head. The legs are thin and extend downward from the body. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated orange crab with large blue eyes, raised claws, and multiple legs against a black 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange crab blue eyes
  • pixelated crab black background
  • crab raised claws
  • retro digital art crab

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • crab

Wordwall

  • orange crab
  • blue eyes
  • raised claws
  • multiple legs
  • black background
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  • retro digital art
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  • white eyes
  • blue pupils
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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
20100517173416724119203
Archive entry
20100517173416724119203.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100517173416724119203.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100517173416724119203.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016