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A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white background.

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A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white background.

A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial views
  • white background
  • central small shapes

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated composition on a white background. Visible elements include a partial face with large circular eyes and a dark horizontal mouth area in the upper left. A small black star symbol appears in the lower left. Two small dark circular shapes are positioned near the center-right. The right side shows a partial view of a character's face with large eyes and a dark mouth area. All visible elements are rendered in grayscale with low-resolution pixelation.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080301150015219478648
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • partial face large eyes star
  • grayscale pixelated star
  • white background small shapes
  • partial face star grayscale

Objects

  • star

Subjects

  • face
  • star

Wordwall

  • partial face
  • large eyes
  • dark mouth
  • black star
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • small circular shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080301150015219478648
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 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 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
3b7b6769ede695bc
SHA-256
3b7b6769ede695bc3692b00896968aa4462275b942f5fe6f7842a3fccff7e16c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.015999

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
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107
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,418 ms
Tokens
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  • white background
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Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated composition on a white background. Visible elements include a partial face with large circular eyes and a dark horizontal mouth area in the upper left. A small black star symbol appears in the lower left. Two small dark circular shapes are positioned near the center-right. The right side shows a partial view of a character's face with large eyes and a dark mouth area. All visible elements are rendered in grayscale with low-resolution pixelation.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows partial views of a character's face with large eyes and a star symbol on a white 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080301150015219478648
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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  • white background small shapes
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  • face
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Wordwall

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  • large eyes
  • dark mouth
  • black star
  • grayscale
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  • white background
  • small circular shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20080301150015219478648
Archive entry
20080301150015219478648.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080301150015219478648.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080301150015219478648.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016