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Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font.

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Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font.

Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • central character
  • text above character
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon features a square-shaped character with a black outer frame and white face. The character has two large black circular eyes, a small horizontal black mouth, and two short black legs. Above the character's head, red blocky text reads '21001' on the top line and '4s1001' on the bottom line. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with black, white, and red pixels. The character's expression appears neutral. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout. The background is solid white with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708181812111979470045
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character red text
  • 21001 4s1001 text
  • black square frame white face
  • retro digital pixel art
  • neutral expression character
  • low-resolution pixel art icon
  • solid white background character
  • blocky red text character

Visible Text

  • 21001
  • 4s1001

Wordwall

  • black square frame
  • white face
  • large black circular eyes
  • small horizontal mouth
  • two short black legs
  • red blocky text
  • '21001' text
  • '4s1001' text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • retro digital appearance
  • neutral expression
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708181812111979470045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/415ae40dc0f8e4ecbe600d849ab8ea1158e7810ff3a52c924bf7c32a0b49b8c2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
415ae40dc0f8e4ec
SHA-256
415ae40dc0f8e4ecbe600d849ab8ea1158e7810ff3a52c924bf7c32a0b49b8c2
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085528

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,399 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 769

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • central character
  • text above character
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixel art icon features a square-shaped character with a black outer frame and white face. The character has two large black circular eyes, a small horizontal black mouth, and two short black legs. Above the character's head, red blocky text reads '21001' on the top line and '4s1001' on the bottom line. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with black, white, and red pixels. The character's expression appears neutral. The icon has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout. The background is solid white with no additional elements or textures.

Description

  • Pixelated character with black square frame, white face, and red text above its head reading '21001 4s1001' in blocky font.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708181812111979470045
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • 21001 4s1001 text
  • black square frame white face
  • retro digital pixel art
  • neutral expression character
  • low-resolution pixel art icon
  • solid white background character
  • blocky red text character

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  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • pixelated character

Visible Text

  • 21001
  • 4s1001

Wordwall

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  • white face
  • large black circular eyes
  • small horizontal mouth
  • two short black legs
  • red blocky text
  • '21001' text
  • '4s1001' text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • retro digital appearance
  • neutral expression
  • solid white background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:07 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708181812111979470045
Archive entry
200708181812111979470045.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708181812111979470045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708181812111979470045.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016