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A pixelated yellow cartoon head with closed eyes and a small mouth appears below a speech bubble containing unreadable text.

A pixelated yellow cartoon head with closed eyes and a small mouth appears below a speech bubble containing unreadable text. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • head centered below speech bubble
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static, low-resolution digital illustration. A rounded yellow cartoon head occupies the lower portion of the frame; it has two black oval eyes (closed), a thin horizontal line for a mouth, and subtle shading on its right side. Above the head is a light beige speech bubble with jagged edges containing dense, pixelated text that cannot be read due to low resolution. The background is a solid muted yellowish-brown color. No other objects or characters are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated yellow cartoon head with closed eyes and a small mouth appears below a speech bubble containing unreadable text.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071005145942427217346

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon head closed eyes speech bubble
  • pixelated text muted brown background
  • low-resolution digital illustration yellow head

Objects

  • speech bubble

Uncertain Text

  • unreadable pixelated text in speech bubble

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon head
  • closed eyes
  • speech bubble
  • pixelated text
  • muted brown background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071005145942427217346
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7bc4bd381d992a0261ef26fc605334669e8002975f9755853f23008b83799f34.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
7bc4bd381d992a02
SHA-256
7bc4bd381d992a0261ef26fc605334669e8002975f9755853f23008b83799f34
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
1072
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079796

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated yellow cartoon head with closed eyes and a small mouth appears below a speech bubble containing unreadable text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,687 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital illustration (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • head centered below speech bubble
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static, low-resolution digital illustration. A rounded yellow cartoon head occupies the lower portion of the frame; it has two black oval eyes (closed), a thin horizontal line for a mouth, and subtle shading on its right side. Above the head is a light beige speech bubble with jagged edges containing dense, pixelated text that cannot be read due to low resolution. The background is a solid muted yellowish-brown color. No other objects or characters are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated yellow cartoon head with closed eyes and a small mouth appears below a speech bubble containing unreadable text.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071005145942427217346

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon head closed eyes speech bubble
  • pixelated text muted brown background
  • low-resolution digital illustration yellow head

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital illustration

Subjects

  • cartoon head

Uncertain Text

  • unreadable pixelated text in speech bubble

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon head
  • closed eyes
  • speech bubble
  • pixelated text
  • muted brown 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
20071005145942427217346
Archive entry
20071005145942427217346.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071005145942427217346.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071005145942427217346.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016