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Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against white background.

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Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against white background.

Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • white background
  • two-handed pose

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated humanoid figure with oversized circular cyan eyes, single antenna on head. Left arm raised holding silver sword with dark hilt; right arm extended holding brown anvil connected by horizontal bar. Body has teal chest accent. All elements rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering and blocky pixels. White background.

Description

  • Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071228001058496043177

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray alien cyan eyes sword anvil
  • pixel art alien holding sword and anvil
  • teal chest pixelated alien
  • 8-bit gray alien with antenna

Wordwall

  • gray alien
  • cyan eyes
  • antenna
  • sword
  • anvil
  • teal chest
  • pixelated
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071228001058496043177
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6cc8ec629021699c6ff0fce722e42cc155d4999f0050b69ad971081563cd36f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
6cc8ec629021699c
SHA-256
6cc8ec629021699c6ff0fce722e42cc155d4999f0050b69ad971081563cd36f0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.056827

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against white background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,503 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 626

Review tags

  • holding anvil (action, 0.80)
  • holding sword (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • anvil (object, 0.80)
  • sword (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • alien figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding sword
  • holding anvil

Colors

  • gray
  • cyan
  • teal
  • brown
  • silver
  • dark hilt

Composition

  • centered figure
  • white background
  • two-handed pose

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated humanoid figure with oversized circular cyan eyes, single antenna on head. Left arm raised holding silver sword with dark hilt; right arm extended holding brown anvil connected by horizontal bar. Body has teal chest accent. All elements rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering and blocky pixels. White background.

Description

  • Pixelated gray alien with large cyan eyes holds a sword in one hand and a brown anvil in the other against 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071228001058496043177

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray alien cyan eyes sword anvil
  • pixel art alien holding sword and anvil
  • teal chest pixelated alien
  • 8-bit gray alien with antenna

Objects

  • sword
  • anvil

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • alien figure

Wordwall

  • gray alien
  • cyan eyes
  • antenna
  • sword
  • anvil
  • teal chest
  • pixelated
  • white background
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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
20071228001058496043177
Archive entry
20071228001058496043177.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071228001058496043177.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071228001058496043177.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016