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Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants.

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Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants.

Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • full-body view
  • white background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated muppet figure with large round head, white eyebrows, black oval eyes, bright orange triangular nose, wide black mouth opening. Body wears light blue cape flowing behind right side, beige short-sleeve shirt with faint pink pattern, red shorts. Left arm raised in wave gesture, right arm bent at elbow holding purple object. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo

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

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red muppet waving
  • elmo pixelated icon
  • muppet with blue cape
  • elmo holding purple object

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo

Wordwall

  • red muppet
  • orange nose
  • black eyes
  • light blue cape
  • beige shirt
  • red pants
  • wave gesture
  • purple object

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904021040471964646841
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
7ebc1a44548bae67
SHA-256
7ebc1a44548bae671638cb64b70e73d544d9470ab13486c15272b067cd9ce7e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113438

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,242 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 575

Review tags

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  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • purple object (object, 0.80)
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Actions

  • waving
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Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • light blue
  • beige
  • purple

Composition

  • centered figure
  • full-body view
  • white background

Dense Caption

Red pixelated muppet figure with large round head, white eyebrows, black oval eyes, bright orange triangular nose, wide black mouth opening. Body wears light blue cape flowing behind right side, beige short-sleeve shirt with faint pink pattern, red shorts. Left arm raised in wave gesture, right arm bent at elbow holding purple object. Pixelation creates blocky appearance across all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated red muppet character with orange nose, black eyes, and open mouth wearing light blue cape over beige shirt and red pants.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo

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

Mood

  • friendly
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red muppet waving
  • elmo pixelated icon
  • muppet with blue cape
  • elmo holding purple object

Objects

  • purple object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • muppet character

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo

Wordwall

  • red muppet
  • orange nose
  • black eyes
  • light blue cape
  • beige shirt
  • red pants
  • wave gesture
  • purple object
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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
200904021040471964646841
Archive entry
200904021040471964646841.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904021040471964646841.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904021040471964646841.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016