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Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

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Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Animation Summary

  • Text above the character changes from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above character
  • icon to upper left of text

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art panels show a character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series. He wears a green tunic, brown boots, and a green pointed hat; has light skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes; holds a silver sword in his right hand and a brown shield on his left arm. Above him is a small blue circular icon with white sparkles. In the top-left panel, yellow text reads 'Hey!'; in the bottom-left panel, it changes to 'Listen!'—both texts have black outlines. The character's expression remains neutral across all panels.

Description

  • Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081115103953898317843

Named Entities

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zelda link green tunic sword shield
  • pixel art zelda icon text hey listen
  • green hat blue icon yellow text
  • zelda link pixel art animation

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Hey!
  • Listen!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Wordwall

  • green tunic
  • brown boots
  • green hat
  • silver sword
  • brown shield
  • blue circular icon
  • yellow text
  • 'Hey!'
  • 'Listen!'

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081115103953898317843
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/813186148fb283116ee5e023036d05bee051a5311ad4a79ceec0f4432f241c20.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
813186148fb28311
SHA-256
813186148fb283116ee5e023036d05bee051a5311ad4a79ceec0f4432f241c20
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:24 UTC
Run
1099
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078563

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,307 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 738

Review tags

  • text changes from hey to listen (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blue circular icon with white sparkles (object, 0.80)
  • shield (object, 0.80)
  • sword (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit style (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • link the legend of zelda (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Animation

  • text changes from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Animation Summary

  • Text above the character changes from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Colors

  • green
  • brown
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • silver
  • blue

Composition

  • character centered
  • text above character
  • icon to upper left of text

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art panels show a character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series. He wears a green tunic, brown boots, and a green pointed hat; has light skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes; holds a silver sword in his right hand and a brown shield on his left arm. Above him is a small blue circular icon with white sparkles. In the top-left panel, yellow text reads 'Hey!'; in the bottom-left panel, it changes to 'Listen!'—both texts have black outlines. The character's expression remains neutral across all panels.

Description

  • Pixelated character in green tunic and hat holds sword and shield, with text above changing from 'Hey!' to 'Listen!'

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081115103953898317843

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • zelda link green tunic sword shield
  • pixel art zelda icon text hey listen
  • green hat blue icon yellow text
  • zelda link pixel art animation

Objects

  • sword
  • shield
  • blue circular icon with white sparkles

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit style

Subjects

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Visible Text

  • Hey!
  • Listen!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Wordwall

  • green tunic
  • brown boots
  • green hat
  • silver sword
  • brown shield
  • blue circular icon
  • yellow text
  • 'Hey!'
  • 'Listen!'
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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
20081115103953898317843
Archive entry
20081115103953898317843.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081115103953898317843.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081115103953898317843.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016