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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud shapes.

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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud shapes.

Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud shapes. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered character
  • cloud background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon character with a bright yellow face. It has large white eyes with black pupils and thick black eyebrows. The character's mouth is open in a wide grin, showing multiple white teeth and a black interior. The background is light blue with white cloud shapes. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The character's eyes are positioned high on the face, and the overall expression is exaggerated and cartoonish.

Description

Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070809103634298569375
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character with wide eyes
  • toothy grin pixel art
  • light blue background with white clouds
  • cartoon character with black eyebrows
  • pixelated yellow face
  • exaggerated cartoon expression
  • white teeth cartoon
  • cloud background cartoon

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • wide eyes
  • black eyebrows
  • toothy grin
  • white teeth
  • light blue background
  • white clouds
  • pixelated
  • cartoon character
  • exaggerated expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070809103634298569375
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
4f231c289e0fd8f6
SHA-256
4f231c289e0fd8f632472f8ae767386b8cb2d87c728c0102d310378869842e69
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079233

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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud shapes.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,574 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 720

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered character
  • cloud background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon character with a bright yellow face. It has large white eyes with black pupils and thick black eyebrows. The character's mouth is open in a wide grin, showing multiple white teeth and a black interior. The background is light blue with white cloud shapes. The character's head is slightly tilted, and the image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The character's eyes are positioned high on the face, and the overall expression is exaggerated and cartoonish.

Description

Pixelated yellow cartoon character with wide eyes, black eyebrows, and a large toothy grin against a light blue background with white cloud 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070809103634298569375
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character with wide eyes
  • toothy grin pixel art
  • light blue background with white clouds
  • cartoon character with black eyebrows
  • pixelated yellow face
  • exaggerated cartoon expression
  • white teeth cartoon
  • cloud background cartoon

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow face
  • wide eyes
  • black eyebrows
  • toothy grin
  • white teeth
  • light blue background
  • white clouds
  • pixelated
  • cartoon character
  • exaggerated expression
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070809103634298569375
Archive entry
20070809103634298569375.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070809103634298569375.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070809103634298569375.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016