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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical stack of
  • character centered in each frame
  • text above character head

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon character with a yellow face, large white eyes, and small pink mouth. The character has gray wing-like shapes on its head and wears dark clothing. In the top-left frame, blue text reads "aww" above the character's head; in the top-right frame, blue text reads "the sky is"; in the bottom-left frame, blue text reads "crying...". Each frame shows a consistent pose with no visible motion changes between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200710082007211707355888

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character gray wings crying
  • pixel art blue text aww the sky is crying
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with text variations across frames
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression across three frames.
  • quarantined composition: vertical stack of three frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • aww
  • the sky is
  • crying...

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • gray wings
  • dark clothing
  • white eyes
  • pink mouth
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710082007211707355888
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/45f1abd56b89bb77b83ce444a21db698938d70065c904d0c4b83384bc193214f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
45f1abd56b89bb77
SHA-256
45f1abd56b89bb77b83ce444a21db698938d70065c904d0c4b83384bc193214f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.093895

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:36 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,664 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 724

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • emotional (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • gray
  • dark gray
  • white
  • pink
  • blue

Composition

  • vertical stack of
  • character centered in each frame
  • text above character head

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon character with a yellow face, large white eyes, and small pink mouth. The character has gray wing-like shapes on its head and wears dark clothing. In the top-left frame, blue text reads "aww" above the character's head; in the top-right frame, blue text reads "the sky is"; in the bottom-left frame, blue text reads "crying...". Each frame shows a consistent pose with no visible motion changes between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200710082007211707355888

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • sad
  • emotional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character gray wings crying
  • pixel art blue text aww the sky is crying
  • franksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image with text variations across frames
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon character with yellow face and gray wings, wearing dark clothing, showing crying expression across three frames.
  • quarantined composition: vertical stack of three frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2D cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • aww
  • the sky is
  • crying...

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • gray wings
  • dark clothing
  • white eyes
  • pink mouth
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • static image
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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
200710082007211707355888
Archive entry
200710082007211707355888.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710082007211707355888.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710082007211707355888.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016