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Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl background.

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Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl background.

Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating background
  • two identical figures

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with spiky orange hair, white face, red circular cheeks, and a smiling expression. Character wears black rectangular overlay with red text 'GROUP1' covering eyes. Background features repeating purple spiral patterns on gray field. Two identical character instances appear side-by-side in grid layout. Character has orange clothing with white accents. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette. One instance shows partial gray area on right edge.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hair smiling character
  • GROUP1 text overlay
  • purple swirl background
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • two identical characters
  • red cheeks text overlay
  • gray background swirls
  • low resolution character

Objects

  • text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • GROUP1

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • red cheeks
  • smiling face
  • black text overlay
  • GROUP1 text
  • purple swirls
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • two identical characters
  • orange clothing
  • white accents
  • repeating patterns
  • gray edge
  • text covers eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100627160436532400792
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/733ad9cc731c7489669c679e63e4e6571d5e5516ad882c3a4054aa76b8f91071.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
733ad9cc731c7489
SHA-256
733ad9cc731c7489669c679e63e4e6571d5e5516ad882c3a4054aa76b8f91071
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076169

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,963 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 700

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlay (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • purple
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • repeating background
  • two identical figures

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with spiky orange hair, white face, red circular cheeks, and a smiling expression. Character wears black rectangular overlay with red text 'GROUP1' covering eyes. Background features repeating purple spiral patterns on gray field. Two identical character instances appear side-by-side in grid layout. Character has orange clothing with white accents. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette. One instance shows partial gray area on right edge.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange hair and red cheeks, wearing black text overlay reading 'GROUP1' over eyes, against purple swirl 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • GROUP1 text overlay
  • purple swirl background
  • pixel art buddy icon
  • two identical characters
  • red cheeks text overlay
  • gray background swirls
  • low resolution character

Objects

  • text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • GROUP1

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • red cheeks
  • smiling face
  • black text overlay
  • GROUP1 text
  • purple swirls
  • gray background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • two identical characters
  • orange clothing
  • white accents
  • repeating patterns
  • gray edge
  • text covers eyes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100627160436532400792
Archive entry
20100627160436532400792.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100627160436532400792.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100627160436532400792.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016