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Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background.

Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure on left
  • text bar at bottom right

Dense Caption

Beige pixelated background. Central figure is stylized cartoon character with short light brown hair and closed eyes in neutral expression. Character wears dark sleeveless top and dark pants, standing in profile facing right. Holds long thin object horizontally near waist. Below character, black rectangular bar contains white blocky text "GUESS WHAT"; letters are pixelated but fully legible. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090411063610251031453
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background cartoon character holding object guess what text
  • pixelated cartoon figure closed eyes neutral expression
  • long thin object dark sleeveless top beige background
  • black text bar white blocky letters guess what

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • GUESS WHAT

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • pixelated cartoon figure
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • light brown short hair
  • dark sleeveless top dark pants
  • holding long thin object
  • black text bar white blocky letters
  • "GUESS WHAT" text
  • no visible motion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090411063610251031453
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a5d70e916be3c25b6dec5be90cf3733530535857b848bebd0aa869fad405ab3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
3a5d70e916be3c25
SHA-256
3a5d70e916be3c25b6dec5be90cf3733530535857b848bebd0aa869fad405ab3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082669

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,488 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 766

Review tags

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  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • long thin object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • holding

Colors

  • beige
  • light brown
  • dark gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central figure on left
  • text bar at bottom right

Dense Caption

Beige pixelated background. Central figure is stylized cartoon character with short light brown hair and closed eyes in neutral expression. Character wears dark sleeveless top and dark pants, standing in profile facing right. Holds long thin object horizontally near waist. Below character, black rectangular bar contains white blocky text "GUESS WHAT"; letters are pixelated but fully legible. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with short hair holding a long object, standing on black text reading "GUESS WHAT" against beige background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090411063610251031453
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background cartoon character holding object guess what text
  • pixelated cartoon figure closed eyes neutral expression
  • long thin object dark sleeveless top beige background
  • black text bar white blocky letters guess what

Objects

  • long thin object

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated cartoon
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • GUESS WHAT

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • pixelated cartoon figure
  • closed eyes neutral expression
  • light brown short hair
  • dark sleeveless top dark pants
  • holding long thin object
  • black text bar white blocky letters
  • "GUESS WHAT" text
  • no visible motion
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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
20090411063610251031453
Archive entry
20090411063610251031453.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090411063610251031453.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090411063610251031453.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016