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Black-and-white pixelated image showing a stylized figure with large limbs and abstract shapes against dark background.

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a stylized figure with large limbs and abstract shapes against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical orientation
  • central subject
  • blocky pixelation

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel icon rendered in grayscale. Central figure has thick vertical limbs, rounded upper body section, and small circular head element at top center. Background consists of solid black areas on left and right edges with mid-tone gray regions filling remaining space. Pixelation creates blocky appearance; no discernible facial features or clothing details visible. Composition is vertically oriented with central subject occupying most horizontal space.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image showing a stylized figure with large limbs and abstract shapes against dark 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081129073757541107840

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • abstract monochrome icon
  • vertical limb pixel icon
  • circular head pixel art

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • grayscale
  • black background
  • vertical limbs
  • rounded body
  • circular head
  • pixelated
  • abstract shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081129073757541107840
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/746ed7edbd92f687f80bd645e34f41f390894d4342bdfa0fb64d6d2f3e4fb569.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
746ed7edbd92f687
SHA-256
746ed7edbd92f687f80bd645e34f41f390894d4342bdfa0fb64d6d2f3e4fb569
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089580

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910420onnx/unsafe0.089580onnx/nsfl0.046990onnx/nsfw0.042589
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Black-and-white pixelated image showing a stylized figure with large limbs and abstract shapes against dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circular head element (object, 0.80)
  • rounded upper body section (object, 0.80)
  • thick vertical limbs (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical orientation
  • central subject
  • blocky pixelation

Dense Caption

Monochrome 16x16 pixel icon rendered in grayscale. Central figure has thick vertical limbs, rounded upper body section, and small circular head element at top center. Background consists of solid black areas on left and right edges with mid-tone gray regions filling remaining space. Pixelation creates blocky appearance; no discernible facial features or clothing details visible. Composition is vertically oriented with central subject occupying most horizontal space.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image showing a stylized figure with large limbs and abstract shapes against dark 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081129073757541107840

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art figure
  • abstract monochrome icon
  • vertical limb pixel icon
  • circular head pixel art

Objects

  • circular head element
  • thick vertical limbs
  • rounded upper body section

Style

  • pixel art
  • abstract
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • stylized figure

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel
  • grayscale
  • black background
  • vertical limbs
  • rounded body
  • circular head
  • pixelated
  • abstract shapes
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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
20081129073757541107840
Archive entry
20081129073757541107840.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081129073757541107840.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081129073757541107840.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016