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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents.

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents.

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image of a cartoon character's head and upper shoulders. The character has short brown hair with darker brown highlights and lighter brown sections, styled with bangs covering the forehead. The face is white with closed eyes represented by dark brown horizontal lines, and a wide, open-mouthed smile showing a light gray tongue. The character's neck and shoulders are visible, with the right shoulder slightly lower than the left. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with brown tones for hair, and the pixelation is consistent across the entire icon.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809081844291730421824

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair cartoon character
  • closed eyes smiling icon
  • pixelated cartoon face
  • white background cartoon icon
  • grayscale cartoon with brown hair
  • character with light gray tongue
  • cartoon head and shoulders
  • smiling pixelated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • light gray tongue
  • white face
  • solid white background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • short hair
  • bangs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809081844291730421824
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/417cfcce1c527bcfe904094389dee6e5617955afa651444dc4961b140c1b6ff6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
417cfcce1c527bcf
SHA-256
417cfcce1c527bcfe904094389dee6e5617955afa651444dc4961b140c1b6ff6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.086979

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,721 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 828

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • centered
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated image of a cartoon character's head and upper shoulders. The character has short brown hair with darker brown highlights and lighter brown sections, styled with bangs covering the forehead. The face is white with closed eyes represented by dark brown horizontal lines, and a wide, open-mouthed smile showing a light gray tongue. The character's neck and shoulders are visible, with the right shoulder slightly lower than the left. The background is solid white. The image uses a limited grayscale palette with brown tones for hair, and the pixelation is consistent across the entire icon.

Description

Pixelated cartoon-style icon of a character with brown hair, closed eyes, and a wide smile, rendered in grayscale tones with brown hair accents.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809081844291730421824

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair cartoon character
  • closed eyes smiling icon
  • pixelated cartoon face
  • white background cartoon icon
  • grayscale cartoon with brown hair
  • character with light gray tongue
  • cartoon head and shoulders
  • smiling pixelated icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • closed eyes
  • wide smile
  • light gray tongue
  • white face
  • solid white background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • short hair
  • bangs
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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
200809081844291730421824
Archive entry
200809081844291730421824.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809081844291730421824.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809081844291730421824.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016