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Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background.

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Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background.

Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • full-body view
  • symmetrical pose

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized penguin. The penguin has a rounded black head and back, a large circular white belly, an orange triangular beak, and two orange oval feet positioned below the body. The eyes are small white pixels with gray shading on top. The image uses blocky 8-bit style rendering with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or additional objects appear in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080517185946779201106

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin 8-bit
  • black white orange penguin
  • stencil penguin icon
  • Tux mascot pixel art

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

Wordwall

  • black penguin
  • white belly
  • orange beak
  • orange feet
  • pixelated art
  • 8-bit style
  • no background details
  • small white eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080517185946779201106
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/77/777e94eacdf01ff8dd4da7012de13add8e650a1542ba4771c1430dbc4c9a0cd7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
777e94eacdf01ff8
SHA-256
777e94eacdf01ff8dd4da7012de13add8e650a1542ba4771c1430dbc4c9a0cd7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:03 UTC
Run
1049
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072033

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,025 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 620

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stencil like (style, 0.80)
  • penguin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • centered subject
  • full-body view
  • symmetrical pose

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a stylized penguin. The penguin has a rounded black head and back, a large circular white belly, an orange triangular beak, and two orange oval feet positioned below the body. The eyes are small white pixels with gray shading on top. The image uses blocky 8-bit style rendering with visible pixelation across all elements. No text or additional objects appear in the frame.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin with black body, white belly, orange beak and feet standing against plain background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080517185946779201106

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • black white orange penguin
  • stencil penguin icon
  • Tux mascot pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • stencil-like

Subjects

  • penguin

Visually Supported Entities

  • Tux (Linux mascot)

Wordwall

  • black penguin
  • white belly
  • orange beak
  • orange feet
  • pixelated art
  • 8-bit style
  • no background details
  • small white eyes
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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
20080517185946779201106
Archive entry
20080517185946779201106.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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

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