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Static pixelated image of a lion with a brown mane and light brown face, mouth open showing teeth, against a greenish background.

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Static pixelated image of a lion with a brown mane and light brown face, mouth open showing teeth, against a greenish background.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cropped to chest up
  • lion centered
  • green background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a lion's head and upper torso. The lion has a thick brown mane with lighter brown and tan highlights, a light brown face, dark brown eyes, a black nose, and a mouth open showing white teeth. The background is a blurred greenish hue. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The lion's expression appears neutral to slightly open-mouthed. The mane extends from the top of the head down the neck and shoulders. The image is cropped to show the lion from the chest up.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a lion with a brown mane and light brown face, mouth open showing teeth, against a greenish 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lion brown mane
  • pixelated lion
  • open mouth lion
  • green background lion
  • low resolution lion
  • blocky lion
  • neutral expression lion
  • teeth lion

Wordwall

  • lion
  • mane
  • brown
  • teeth
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • open mouth
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • blocky

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090901192753743556008
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/442309a2b05dface6b4a1a155c945ce689033859600dd1eaa76f029eb3556790.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
442309a2b05dface
SHA-256
442309a2b05dface6b4a1a155c945ce689033859600dd1eaa76f029eb3556790
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 12:37 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Static pixelated image of a lion with a brown mane and light brown face, mouth open showing teeth, against a greenish background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,840 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 684

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • lion (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • open mouth

Colors

  • brown
  • tan
  • light brown
  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • cropped to chest up
  • lion centered
  • green background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a lion's head and upper torso. The lion has a thick brown mane with lighter brown and tan highlights, a light brown face, dark brown eyes, a black nose, and a mouth open showing white teeth. The background is a blurred greenish hue. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. The lion's expression appears neutral to slightly open-mouthed. The mane extends from the top of the head down the neck and shoulders. The image is cropped to show the lion from the chest up.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a lion with a brown mane and light brown face, mouth open showing teeth, against a greenish 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lion brown mane
  • pixelated lion
  • open mouth lion
  • green background lion
  • low resolution lion
  • blocky lion
  • neutral expression lion
  • teeth lion

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • lion

Wordwall

  • lion
  • mane
  • brown
  • teeth
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • open mouth
  • neutral expression
  • low resolution
  • blocky
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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
20090901192753743556008
Archive entry
20090901192753743556008.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090901192753743556008.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090901192753743556008.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016