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Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped to facial features

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a stylized animal-like face with prominent rounded ears extending above the head. The central area shows two small circular dark eye shapes positioned horizontally near the top center, with a slightly larger rounded shape below them representing a nose. Darker shading defines facial contours and ear edges against lighter gray background pixels. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905091650521816447642

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale cartoon face large ears
  • pixelated animal character grayscale
  • cartoon nose eyes pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • high pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • cartoon face
  • large ears
  • dark eyes
  • rounded nose
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905091650521816447642
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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
icons/72/72970d0b0a91863cfee5b6365fb5bd741b654df64df2f147b9c90e8ac5ec0cc5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
72970d0b0a91863c
SHA-256
72970d0b0a91863cfee5b6365fb5bd741b654df64df2f147b9c90e8ac5ec0cc5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081794

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,240 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 601

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • animal like character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered face
  • cropped to facial features

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a stylized animal-like face with prominent rounded ears extending above the head. The central area shows two small circular dark eye shapes positioned horizontally near the top center, with a slightly larger rounded shape below them representing a nose. Darker shading defines facial contours and ear edges against lighter gray background pixels. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a cartoon character with large ears, dark eyes, and a rounded nose on a light 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905091650521816447642

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale cartoon face large ears
  • pixelated animal character grayscale
  • cartoon nose eyes pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • high pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • animal-like character

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • cartoon face
  • large ears
  • dark eyes
  • rounded nose
  • light 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
200905091650521816447642
Archive entry
200905091650521816447642.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905091650521816447642.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905091650521816447642.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016