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A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents.

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A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents.

A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central character
  • light background
  • dark accents

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale pixelated icon featuring a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body. The character has a rounded shape with dark pixel clusters forming the head and body. The background is light gray with darker gray and black accents. The character's face includes two large circular eyes and a small mouth. The overall style is blocky and low-resolution, typical of early digital graphics. The image is static with no visible motion or animation.

Description

A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated character
  • low-resolution stylized head
  • blocky grayscale icon
  • pixel art character with wide eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • stylized character
  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • small body
  • light background
  • dark accents
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081220202830767592419
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 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 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
69ca0eef41a57887
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087998

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,683 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 730

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central character
  • light background
  • dark accents

Dense Caption

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Description

A grayscale pixelated image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small body, set against a light background with dark accents.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated character
  • low-resolution stylized head
  • blocky grayscale icon
  • pixel art character with wide eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • stylized character

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
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  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • small body
  • light background
  • dark accents
  • blocky style
  • low-resolution
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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
20081220202830767592419
Archive entry
20081220202830767592419.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081220202830767592419.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081220202830767592419.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016