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Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements.

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Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements.

Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character stance changes between

Animation Summary

Character stance shifts between : top-right shows wider stance with less visible red text, bottom-left shows narrower stance with less visible red text

Composition

  • character centered
  • vertical text on sides

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with black spiky hair, red mask covering eyes, blue short-sleeve shirt with white square on chest, red gloves, blue pants with red stripes, and white shoes. Character stands in static pose with arms at sides. Left side has vertical blue text elements; right side has vertical red text elements. Top-right panel shows character with slightly wider stance and less visible red text. Bottom-left panel shows character with slightly narrower stance and less visible red text. All panels share same character design and background.

Description

  • Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090101193715446593309

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red mask blue shirt character
  • pixel art character with vertical text
  • chibi character red gloves blue pants
  • buddy icon character stance change

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character stance shifts between panels: top-right shows wider stance with less visible red text, bottom-left shows narrower stance with less visible red text.
  • quarantined animation: character stance changes between panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • red text elements
  • blue text elements

Wordwall

  • red mask
  • blue shirt
  • red gloves
  • blue pants
  • black hair
  • vertical blue text
  • vertical red text
  • static pose
  • white background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090101193715446593309
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/408cb10d885e01bc63219d6a82e3735cbbf41c1efc3b8d423a7e1fb7c84fd4e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
408cb10d885e01bc
SHA-256
408cb10d885e01bc63219d6a82e3735cbbf41c1efc3b8d423a7e1fb7c84fd4e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101004

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,681 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 840

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • character stance changes between (other, 0.80)
  • chibi (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • character stance changes between

Animation Summary

Character stance shifts between : top-right shows wider stance with less visible red text, bottom-left shows narrower stance with less visible red text

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • character centered
  • vertical text on sides

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with black spiky hair, red mask covering eyes, blue short-sleeve shirt with white square on chest, red gloves, blue pants with red stripes, and white shoes. Character stands in static pose with arms at sides. Left side has vertical blue text elements; right side has vertical red text elements. Top-right panel shows character with slightly wider stance and less visible red text. Bottom-left panel shows character with slightly narrower stance and less visible red text. All panels share same character design and background.

Description

  • Pixelated character in red mask and blue outfit with red gloves, standing against white background with blue and red vertical text elements.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090101193715446593309

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red mask blue shirt character
  • pixel art character with vertical text
  • chibi character red gloves blue pants
  • buddy icon character stance change

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no matte
  • no cropping
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character stance shifts between panels: top-right shows wider stance with less visible red text, bottom-left shows narrower stance with less visible red text.
  • quarantined animation: character stance changes between panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • chibi

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • red text elements
  • blue text elements

Wordwall

  • red mask
  • blue shirt
  • red gloves
  • blue pants
  • black hair
  • vertical blue text
  • vertical red text
  • static pose
  • white background
  • pixelated
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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
20090101193715446593309
Archive entry
20090101193715446593309.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090101193715446593309.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090101193715446593309.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016