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Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background.

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Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background.

Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • full-body crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Character has short black hair styled upward. Dark mask covers eyes; white eye shapes visible through mask cutouts. Light skin tone. Red garment with yellow circular patterns on chest. Background is pixelated gradient of orange to yellow. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • 200905101236422097580720

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair character mask red top
  • pixel art character orange background
  • mask eye shapes yellow accents
  • red garment yellow patterns pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • dark mask
  • white eye shapes
  • light skin
  • red top
  • yellow accents
  • orange-yellow background
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905101236422097580720
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/3560db59c9685be9e0592f3175cb2280e4199b0699e0473ae3972fc9215fcbf1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
3560db59c9685be9
SHA-256
3560db59c9685be9e0592f3175cb2280e4199b0699e0473ae3972fc9215fcbf1
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 00:59 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.046982

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.063917

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Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,730 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 669

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light skin tone
  • red
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered character
  • full-body crop
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Character has short black hair styled upward. Dark mask covers eyes; white eye shapes visible through mask cutouts. Light skin tone. Red garment with yellow circular patterns on chest. Background is pixelated gradient of orange to yellow. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette. No text or additional objects present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character with black hair, dark mask covering eyes, red top with yellow accents, and orange-yellow background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • 200905101236422097580720

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black hair character mask red top
  • pixel art character orange background
  • mask eye shapes yellow accents
  • red garment yellow patterns pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • black hair
  • dark mask
  • white eye shapes
  • light skin
  • red top
  • yellow accents
  • orange-yellow background
  • pixel art
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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
200905101236422097580720
Archive entry
200905101236422097580720.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905101236422097580720.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905101236422097580720.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016