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Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark background.

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Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark background.

Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • background alternates between brown and gray
  • head position shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • Character holds black object while background alternates between brown and gray; head position shifts slightly.

Composition

  • centered character
  • partial background visible

Dense Caption

Character has red pointed hat with black trim, blue robe over purple garment, white beard. Right hand holds small black rectangular object; left hand is raised with fingers extended. Background alternates between brown and gray across frames. Pixelated rendering style shows visible dithering on edges. Character's head position shifts slightly between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803101233451553370220

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hat blue robe white beard
  • black rectangular object pixelated character
  • brown gray background animation

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • blue robe
  • white beard
  • black object
  • brown background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithered edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803101233451553370220
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5c/5c0e0ee0e5baf89af239aad801f7ed5478188cacb6e9ef830e39b4cae18e8beb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
5c0e0ee0e5baf89a
SHA-256
5c0e0ee0e5baf89af239aad801f7ed5478188cacb6e9ef830e39b4cae18e8beb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089157

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,555 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 623

Review tags

  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • black rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • dithered edges (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object
  • hand raised

Animation

  • background alternates between brown and gray
  • head position shifts slightly

Animation Summary

  • Character holds black object while background alternates between brown and gray; head position shifts slightly.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • purple
  • brown
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • partial background visible

Dense Caption

Character has red pointed hat with black trim, blue robe over purple garment, white beard. Right hand holds small black rectangular object; left hand is raised with fingers extended. Background alternates between brown and gray across frames. Pixelated rendering style shows visible dithering on edges. Character's head position shifts slightly between frames.

Description

  • Pixelated character with red hat and blue cape, white beard, holding a black object in right hand against dark 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803101233451553370220

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hat blue robe white beard
  • black rectangular object pixelated character
  • brown gray background animation

Objects

  • black rectangular object

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered edges

Subjects

  • character

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • blue robe
  • white beard
  • black object
  • brown background
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • dithered edges
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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
200803101233451553370220
Archive entry
200803101233451553370220.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803101233451553370220.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803101233451553370220.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016