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Static pixelated image of a stylized character with large eyes and rounded features on dark background.

Static pixelated image of a stylized character with large eyes and rounded features on dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure with four surrounding figures in cross pattern
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The static icon displays a pixelated, monochrome grayscale image featuring a central figure with large circular eyes, small nose, and open mouth expression. The figure has rounded head shape with visible ear-like protrusions on sides. Four smaller identical figures are arranged around the central one in a cross pattern against dark background. All elements exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or color variations present.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a stylized character with large eyes and rounded features on dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080204113311422675860

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character icon
  • grayscale cross pattern figures
  • low-resolution monochrome animation
  • stylized figure with large eyes

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale image
  • central stylized figure
  • four surrounding identical figures
  • large circular eyes
  • rounded head shape
  • dark background
  • low-resolution rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080204113311422675860
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 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 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
45a1d7e1169ab97d
SHA-256
45a1d7e1169ab97d4ef19b7818a7e457617568c820d449cd0f8c4c2476a679de
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097474

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixelated image of a stylized character with large eyes and rounded features on dark background.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,424 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 629

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
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  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure with four surrounding figures in cross pattern
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The static icon displays a pixelated, monochrome grayscale image featuring a central figure with large circular eyes, small nose, and open mouth expression. The figure has rounded head shape with visible ear-like protrusions on sides. Four smaller identical figures are arranged around the central one in a cross pattern against dark background. All elements exhibit low-resolution pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or color variations present.

Description

  • Static pixelated image of a stylized character with large eyes and rounded features on dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080204113311422675860

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character icon
  • grayscale cross pattern figures
  • low-resolution monochrome animation
  • stylized figure with large eyes

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stylized character
  • multiple identical figures

Wordwall

  • pixelated grayscale image
  • central stylized figure
  • four surrounding identical figures
  • large circular eyes
  • rounded head shape
  • dark background
  • low-resolution rendering
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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
20080204113311422675860
Archive entry
20080204113311422675860.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080204113311422675860.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080204113311422675860.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016