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Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corne…

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Composition

  • figure centered
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg. The figure's head has two small circular eyes and a small mouth. The figure's body is a vertical line with a horizontal line at the bottom. The figure's leg is a single line extending from the bottom of the body. The figure's arms are two vertical lines extending from the top of the head. The figure is standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner. The icon has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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

  • black and white pixelated figure
  • single leg figure
  • gray rectangle background
  • static pixel art figure

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • figure
  • rounded head
  • two vertical arms
  • single leg
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910251339511422062880
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
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 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
4c8d0dfd6a4ce448
SHA-256
4c8d0dfd6a4ce448a7b2f87f512581175ebd6526be089f3b917e1411fd85e391
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073454

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Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,032 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • figure centered
  • gray rectangle bottom right

Dense Caption

Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg. The figure's head has two small circular eyes and a small mouth. The figure's body is a vertical line with a horizontal line at the bottom. The figure's leg is a single line extending from the bottom of the body. The figure's arms are two vertical lines extending from the top of the head. The figure is standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner. The icon has a static appearance with no visible animation changes.

Description

Black and white pixelated icon of a figure with a rounded head, two vertical arms, and a single leg, standing on a white background with a gray rectangle in the bottom right corner.

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

  • black and white pixelated figure
  • single leg figure
  • gray rectangle background
  • static pixel art figure

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • figure
  • rounded head
  • two vertical arms
  • single leg
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • static
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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
200910251339511422062880
Archive entry
200910251339511422062880.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910251339511422062880.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910251339511422062880.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016