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A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds.

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A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds.

A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • color accents shift between panels: green to yellow
  • facial details change from simple to extended lines

Animation Summary

The figure's color accents shift from green to yellow across top panels, while facial details evolve into extended red lines in the bottom-right panel.

Composition

  • four-panel grid layout
  • central figure in each panel

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants on a dark background. Top-left panel: A light gray, rounded figure has a green square near its lower body. Top-right panel: The same figure now has a yellow square near its upper body. Bottom-left panel: The figure's face shows red and black details with a small red accent below the face. Bottom-right panel: The figure is larger, filling more space, with extended red lines from the face area. All panels share consistent light gray tones for the main shape.

Description

  • A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810242019011634305764
  • 200810242020191611210926

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized character four-panel grid
  • green square yellow square red lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible matte or border

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized character

Wordwall

  • four-panel grid
  • light gray rounded figure
  • green square (top-left)
  • yellow square (top-right)
  • red and black facial details (bottom-left)
  • extended red lines (bottom-right)

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810242019011634305764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810242020191611210926
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/7f/7f0cd5ab834aad3c3470e246dff14cffd213a4e16ac2d13c02e014c3e4ccd4c7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
7f0cd5ab834aad3c
SHA-256
7f0cd5ab834aad3c3470e246dff14cffd213a4e16ac2d13c02e014c3e4ccd4c7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
1089
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093761

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906239onnx/unsafe0.093761onnx/nsfw0.061521onnx/nsfl0.032241
Enrichment records (1)
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A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,106 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,134, response 841

Review tags

  • color accent shifts (action, 0.80)
  • facial feature changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • green square (object, 0.80)
  • red lines (object, 0.80)
  • yellow square (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facial feature changes
  • color accent shifts

Animation

  • color accents shift between panels: green to yellow
  • facial details change from simple to extended lines

Animation Summary

The figure's color accents shift from green to yellow across top panels, while facial details evolve into extended red lines in the bottom-right panel.

Colors

  • light gray
  • black
  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • dark red

Composition

  • four-panel grid layout
  • central figure in each panel

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants on a dark background. Top-left panel: A light gray, rounded figure has a green square near its lower body. Top-right panel: The same figure now has a yellow square near its upper body. Bottom-left panel: The figure's face shows red and black details with a small red accent below the face. Bottom-right panel: The figure is larger, filling more space, with extended red lines from the face area. All panels share consistent light gray tones for the main shape.

Description

  • A four-panel grid shows a stylized character with changing facial features and colored accents against black backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810242019011634305764
  • 200810242020191611210926

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized character four-panel grid
  • green square yellow square red lines

Objects

  • green square
  • yellow square
  • red lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible matte or border

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • stylized character

Visually Supported Entities

  • stylized character

Wordwall

  • four-panel grid
  • light gray rounded figure
  • green square (top-left)
  • yellow square (top-right)
  • red and black facial details (bottom-left)
  • extended red lines (bottom-right)
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Full source records (2)

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
200810242019011634305764
Archive entry
200810242019011634305764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810242019011634305764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810242019011634305764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200810242020191611210926
Archive entry
200810242020191611210926.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810242020191611210926.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810242020191611210926.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016