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Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters.

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Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters.

Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six portraits

Dense Caption

Six pixelated anime-style character portraits arranged in a grid. Top row left: orange-haired character winking, wearing blue garment; top middle: brown-haired character with neutral expression, dark blue background; top right: blonde character with open mouth, dark blue background; bottom left: orange-haired character with white floral headband, smiling; bottom middle: black-haired character with closed eyes and hand near face. All portraits have text labels beneath them in pixelated font: 'YUI HIROSE' (bottom left), 'AZUSA NAKAGAWA' (bottom middle), partial text visible on top row including 'HUKO', 'KOKO', 'MAYU', 'AKI'. Backgrounds are solid dark blue or purple. Pixelation is consistent across all portraits.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Named Entities

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters with floral headband
  • pixelated anime portraits blue background
  • YUI HIROSE AZUSA NAKAGAWA text labels
  • winking orange-haired anime character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA
  • HUKO
  • KOKO
  • MAYU
  • AKI

Visually Supported Entities

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA

Wordwall

  • anime-style characters
  • pixelated rendering
  • orange hair
  • brown hair
  • blonde hair
  • black hair
  • winking expression
  • neutral expression
  • open mouth expression
  • floral headband
  • blue garment
  • dark blue background
  • text labels below portraits

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090626163130307086821
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906261632081813923332
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6eb70d930a11a3d0040a8966f6dfa7991d1c26162d04efe366597fddd7859b15.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
6eb70d930a11a3d0
SHA-256
6eb70d930a11a3d0040a8966f6dfa7991d1c26162d04efe366597fddd7859b15
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 11:42 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010266

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.142932

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,305 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,211, response 726

Review tags

  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • winking (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • floral headband (object, 0.80)
  • anime style (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anime characters (subject, 0.80)
  • female anime characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • winking
  • smiling
  • hand near face

Colors

  • orange
  • brown
  • blonde
  • black
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • six portraits

Dense Caption

Six pixelated anime-style character portraits arranged in a grid. Top row left: orange-haired character winking, wearing blue garment; top middle: brown-haired character with neutral expression, dark blue background; top right: blonde character with open mouth, dark blue background; bottom left: orange-haired character with white floral headband, smiling; bottom middle: black-haired character with closed eyes and hand near face. All portraits have text labels beneath them in pixelated font: 'YUI HIROSE' (bottom left), 'AZUSA NAKAGAWA' (bottom middle), partial text visible on top row including 'HUKO', 'KOKO', 'MAYU', 'AKI'. Backgrounds are solid dark blue or purple. Pixelation is consistent across all portraits.

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style character icons with distinct hair colors and expressions, each featuring text labels beneath the characters.

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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • cheerful
  • neutral

Named Entities

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime characters with floral headband
  • pixelated anime portraits blue background
  • YUI HIROSE AZUSA NAKAGAWA text labels
  • winking orange-haired anime character

Objects

  • floral headband

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • anime style

Subjects

  • anime characters
  • female anime characters

Visible Text

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA
  • HUKO
  • KOKO
  • MAYU
  • AKI

Visually Supported Entities

  • YUI HIROSE
  • AZUSA NAKAGAWA

Wordwall

  • anime-style characters
  • pixelated rendering
  • orange hair
  • brown hair
  • blonde hair
  • black hair
  • winking expression
  • neutral expression
  • open mouth expression
  • floral headband
  • blue garment
  • dark blue background
  • text labels below portraits
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Full source records (2)

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
20090626163130307086821
Archive entry
20090626163130307086821.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090626163130307086821.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090626163130307086821.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200906261632081813923332
Archive entry
200906261632081813923332.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906261632081813923332.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906261632081813923332.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016