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Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black background.

Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eye size changes

Animation Summary

  • Character's eye size varies across four views; bottom-right is empty gray square

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • four
  • black background

Dense Caption

Four pixelated cartoon character views on black background: top-left shows full face with gray hair, glasses, white collar, and black jacket; top-right shows same character with slightly wider eyes; bottom-left shows character with smaller eyes and less visible collar; bottom-right is empty gray square. Character has peach skin, black pupils, white eye highlights, and gray hair with white highlights. All views are cropped to head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray hair cartoon character
  • glasses white collar pixel art
  • eye size variation cartoon
  • four cartoon character
  • peach skin pixel art
  • black background cartoon
  • empty gray square cartoon
  • cartoon character eye highlights

Preprocessing Notes

  • empty gray square in bottom-right panel
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's eye size varies across four views; bottom-right panel is empty gray square.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel cartoon character

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • glasses
  • white collar
  • peach skin
  • black jacket
  • pixelated
  • four views
  • empty gray square
  • black background
  • white eye highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081025151120662216727
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c2d8ccce6ac86f85b7823e4b951a5d78ee647bebe6139cac839479af7b56698.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
4c2d8ccce6ac86f8
SHA-256
4c2d8ccce6ac86f85b7823e4b951a5d78ee647bebe6139cac839479af7b56698
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096438

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,941 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 704

Review tags

  • eye size variation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • peach (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • collar (object, 0.80)
  • glasses (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • eye size variation

Animation

  • eye size changes

Animation Summary

  • Character's eye size varies across four views; bottom-right is empty gray square

Colors

  • gray
  • peach
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • head and shoulders
  • four
  • black background

Dense Caption

Four pixelated cartoon character views on black background: top-left shows full face with gray hair, glasses, white collar, and black jacket; top-right shows same character with slightly wider eyes; bottom-left shows character with smaller eyes and less visible collar; bottom-right is empty gray square. Character has peach skin, black pupils, white eye highlights, and gray hair with white highlights. All views are cropped to head and shoulders.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with gray hair, glasses, and a white collar on a black 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • celebrities

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • glasses white collar pixel art
  • eye size variation cartoon
  • four cartoon character
  • peach skin pixel art
  • black background cartoon
  • empty gray square cartoon
  • cartoon character eye highlights

Objects

  • glasses
  • collar
  • jacket

Preprocessing Notes

  • empty gray square in bottom-right panel
  • quarantined animationSummary: Character's eye size varies across four views; bottom-right panel is empty gray square.
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel cartoon character

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • gray hair
  • glasses
  • white collar
  • peach skin
  • black jacket
  • pixelated
  • four views
  • empty gray square
  • black background
  • white eye highlights
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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
20081025151120662216727
Archive entry
20081025151120662216727.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081025151120662216727.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081025151120662216727.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016