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Static grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and flowing hair, set against a light background with abstract shapes.

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Static grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and flowing hair, set against a light background with abstract shapes.

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Composition

  • profile view
  • central figure with background elements
  • asymmetrical arrangement of abstract forms

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon featuring a pixelated character with large expressive eyes and voluminous flowing hair. The figure has a rounded head shape and appears to be in profile view facing left. Abstract geometric shapes including angular forms and curved lines are visible in the background, rendered in varying shades of gray from pure white to deep black. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art with distinct blocky pixels forming all elements.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and flowing hair, set against a light background with abstract shapes.

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
  • 20071102141336885133588

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art character
  • large eyes flowing hair profile
  • abstract shapes background grayscale icon
  • low resolution pixelated anime style

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • large eyes
  • flowing hair
  • profile view
  • abstract background
  • low resolution
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071102141336885133588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 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 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
499d3c8c90c5c221
SHA-256
499d3c8c90c5c2215fbdd0eeca8f8c8771ec99a6ad7a3f0c16b95d8b6f130fe4
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
1031
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089998

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Static grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and flowing hair, set against a light background with abstract shapes.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:23 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,874 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 621

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character design (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • profile view
  • central figure with background elements
  • asymmetrical arrangement of abstract forms

Dense Caption

Grayscale static icon featuring a pixelated character with large expressive eyes and voluminous flowing hair. The figure has a rounded head shape and appears to be in profile view facing left. Abstract geometric shapes including angular forms and curved lines are visible in the background, rendered in varying shades of gray from pure white to deep black. The image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital art with distinct blocky pixels forming all elements.

Description

  • Static grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and flowing hair, set against a light background with abstract shapes.

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
  • 20071102141336885133588

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art character
  • large eyes flowing hair profile
  • abstract shapes background grayscale icon
  • low resolution pixelated anime style

Objects

  • abstract shapes

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • stylized character design

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • large eyes
  • flowing hair
  • profile view
  • abstract background
  • low resolution
  • blocky pixels
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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
20071102141336885133588
Archive entry
20071102141336885133588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071102141336885133588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071102141336885133588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016