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Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay.

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Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay.

Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, a wide brown mouth, and a white shirt collar. The character's head is positioned on the left side of the frame against a solid light blue background. The right side and bottom of the image have a solid red background. Black pixelated text reads 'this is mi' at the top right, 'bro in the' at the bottom left, and 'future' at the bottom right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and dithering. The character's expression is neutral with a slight smile. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer Simpson

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090422093357680977402
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Homer Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • homer simpson pixel art
  • yellow cartoon character blue red background
  • bro in the future text
  • this is mi text
  • pixelated cartoon character text
  • homer simpson low resolution
  • blue background red text cartoon
  • homer simpson text meme

Visible Text

  • this is mi
  • bro in the
  • future

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow-skinned cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow-skinned cartoon character
  • light blue background
  • solid red background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'this is mi' text
  • 'bro in the' text
  • 'future' text
  • large white eyes
  • wide brown mouth
  • white shirt collar
  • low-resolution digital art
  • pixelation
  • dithering
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090422093357680977402
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/82/82fc6faaaef0a0659661beced79f33e54aa4e7ffbcf6a682f10e2f125383c74f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
82fc6faaaef0a065
SHA-256
82fc6faaaef0a0659661beced79f33e54aa4e7ffbcf6a682f10e2f125383c74f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1109
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116081

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,150 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 791

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • yellow skinned cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image

Colors

  • yellow
  • light blue
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, a wide brown mouth, and a white shirt collar. The character's head is positioned on the left side of the frame against a solid light blue background. The right side and bottom of the image have a solid red background. Black pixelated text reads 'this is mi' at the top right, 'bro in the' at the bottom left, and 'future' at the bottom right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and dithering. The character's expression is neutral with a slight smile. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a yellow-skinned cartoon character with large eyes and a wide mouth, set against a blue background with red text overlay.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer Simpson

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090422093357680977402
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Homer Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • homer simpson pixel art
  • yellow cartoon character blue red background
  • bro in the future text
  • this is mi text
  • pixelated cartoon character text
  • homer simpson low resolution
  • blue background red text cartoon
  • homer simpson text meme

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art
  • retro

Subjects

  • yellow-skinned cartoon character

Visible Text

  • this is mi
  • bro in the
  • future

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow-skinned cartoon character

Wordwall

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  • light blue background
  • solid red background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'this is mi' text
  • 'bro in the' text
  • 'future' text
  • large white eyes
  • wide brown mouth
  • white shirt collar
  • low-resolution digital art
  • pixelation
  • dithering
  • neutral expression
  • slight smile
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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
20090422093357680977402
Archive entry
20090422093357680977402.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090422093357680977402.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090422093357680977402.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016