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Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white background.

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Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white background.

Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three identical instances

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical pixel art characters arranged in a grid. Each character has an orange face with simple black eyes and no mouth. The head features blue hair styled as two rounded buns with purple highlights at the top. The body is dark brown or black, wearing a short-sleeved outfit with blue accents on shoulders and lower torso. All three instances are static; there are no visible animation changes between them.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080821214526582497384

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange skin pixel art character
  • blue hair two buns
  • pixel art anime style
  • black outfit blue accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Wordwall

  • orange skin
  • blue hair
  • purple highlights
  • black outfit
  • two buns
  • simple eyes
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080821214526582497384
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 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 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
50e0da066eb5e6fc
SHA-256
50e0da066eb5e6fc3454fa94f60352f26116c8f45956267242b7954a9095a415
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001146

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:21 UTC
Run
1034
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three identical instances

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical pixel art characters arranged in a grid. Each character has an orange face with simple black eyes and no mouth. The head features blue hair styled as two rounded buns with purple highlights at the top. The body is dark brown or black, wearing a short-sleeved outfit with blue accents on shoulders and lower torso. All three instances are static; there are no visible animation changes between them.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange skin, blue hair styled in two buns, and a black outfit with blue accents on white 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080821214526582497384

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange skin pixel art character
  • blue hair two buns
  • pixel art anime style
  • black outfit blue accents

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • orange skin
  • blue hair
  • purple highlights
  • black outfit
  • two buns
  • simple eyes
  • pixel art
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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
20080821214526582497384
Archive entry
20080821214526582497384.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080821214526582497384.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080821214526582497384.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016