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Pixelated image of a character with silver hair and armor-like details, holding a glowing multicolored object against dark background.

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Pixelated image of a character with silver hair and armor-like details, holding a glowing multicolored object against dark background.

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with silver-toned hair and segmented armor or metallic plating on the torso. The figure holds a rounded object emitting light in cyan, magenta, and purple hues. Background is solid black. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests a stylized character design. Color palette includes shades of gray, white, cyan, magenta, purple, green, and brown. Composition centers the figure with the glowing object below the torso.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character with silver hair and armor-like details, holding a glowing multicolored object 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • silver hair character
  • glowing cyan magenta object
  • pixelated armor figure
  • multicolored light character

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • silver hair
  • armor-like plating
  • glowing multicolored object
  • cyan magenta purple light
  • black background
  • pixelated character

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080210180933375540960
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6b/6b85fde1453deaef9673eeb58b49e3f402b8f793da5fa9084ddf01fad50a65cc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
6b85fde1453deaef
SHA-256
6b85fde1453deaef9673eeb58b49e3f402b8f793da5fa9084ddf01fad50a65cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:50 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074193

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a character with silver hair and armor-like details, holding a glowing multicolored object against dark background.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,948 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 573

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • glowing object (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character design (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • cyan
  • magenta
  • purple
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • centered figure
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon shows a pixelated figure with silver-toned hair and segmented armor or metallic plating on the torso. The figure holds a rounded object emitting light in cyan, magenta, and purple hues. Background is solid black. Pixelation obscures fine details but suggests a stylized character design. Color palette includes shades of gray, white, cyan, magenta, purple, green, and brown. Composition centers the figure with the glowing object below the torso.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a character with silver hair and armor-like details, holding a glowing multicolored object 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • silver hair character
  • glowing cyan magenta object
  • pixelated armor figure
  • multicolored light character

Objects

  • glowing object

Style

  • pixel art
  • stylized character design

Subjects

  • character

Visually Supported Entities

  • character

Wordwall

  • silver hair
  • armor-like plating
  • glowing multicolored object
  • cyan magenta purple light
  • black background
  • pixelated character
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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
20080210180933375540960
Archive entry
20080210180933375540960.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#20080210180933375540960.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080210180933375540960.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016