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Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior.

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Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior.

Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior. 48×48 GIF A…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • partial figure on left
  • small square to right
  • circular object below
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution grayscale pixel art. On the left, a partial figure with a large head and dark hair is visible. A small solid square shape appears to the right of the figure. Below, a circular object with a patterned interior is present. The background is a gradient of light gray tones. The image has a blocky, pixelated appearance with no visible text or animation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071130173214110631398

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art
  • partial figure dark hair
  • small square circular object
  • light gray background pixelated

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • large head
  • dark hair
  • small square
  • circular object
  • patterned interior
  • light gray background
  • blocky pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071130173214110631398
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/7353ac486b6e1c036c0469c494c14645b02eafd46203320d244df56c4f431562.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
7353ac486b6e1c03
SHA-256
7353ac486b6e1c036c0469c494c14645b02eafd46203320d244df56c4f431562
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.072524

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,755 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 721

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • circular object (subject, 0.80)
  • partial figure (subject, 0.80)
  • small square (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • partial figure on left
  • small square to right
  • circular object below
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution grayscale pixel art. On the left, a partial figure with a large head and dark hair is visible. A small solid square shape appears to the right of the figure. Below, a circular object with a patterned interior is present. The background is a gradient of light gray tones. The image has a blocky, pixelated appearance with no visible text or animation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image showing a partial view of a character with a large head and dark hair, a small square shape, and a circular object with a patterned interior.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20071130173214110631398

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art
  • partial figure dark hair
  • small square circular object
  • light gray background pixelated

Objects

  • small square
  • circular object

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • partial figure
  • small square
  • circular object

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • partial figure
  • large head
  • dark hair
  • small square
  • circular object
  • patterned interior
  • light gray background
  • blocky pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20071130173214110631398
Archive entry
20071130173214110631398.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#20071130173214110631398.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071130173214110631398.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016