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Pixelated green text and yellow cartoon character with brown hair, shown in multiple poses against black background.

Pixelated green text and yellow cartoon character with brown hair, shown in multiple poses against black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Animation Summary

  • Character hair alternates between short and long positions across two of four each; text remains static

Composition

  • text above two of figures
  • figures on purple base against black background

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'Guss' appears top-left; 'who' top-right. Two identical yellow cartoon characters with large white eyes, pink mouths, and antennae are positioned next to a tall brown-haired figure. Text below reads 'made' left and 'WAFFLE?!?' right. The character's hair alternates between short (left) and long (right) in two rows of four panels each. All elements on solid black background with purple base under figures. Pixel art style uses limited color palette: green, yellow, brown, white, pink, purple.

Description

  • Pixelated green text and yellow cartoon character with brown hair, shown in multiple poses against black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080726143034381609064

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character brown hair green text
  • Guss who made WAFFLE?!? pixel art
  • green text yellow character black background
  • pixelated 'WAFFLE?!?' text yellow character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character hair alternates between short and long positions across two rows of four panels each; text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: text above two rows of figures

Visible Text

  • Guss
  • who
  • made
  • WAFFLE?!?

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • yellow cartoon character
  • brown hair
  • large white eyes
  • pink mouth
  • antennae
  • black background
  • purple base
  • 'Guss' text
  • 'who' text
  • 'made' text
  • 'WAFFLE?!?' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080726143034381609064
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b0823481d1fbc1c3043f49870e848c810e91f1d4fa7e4525daf4baf6a09ab93.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
8b0823481d1fbc1c
SHA-256
8b0823481d1fbc1c3043f49870e848c810e91f1d4fa7e4525daf4baf6a09ab93
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.070876

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.155512

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green text and yellow cartoon character with brown hair, shown in multiple poses against black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,976 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 686

Review tags

  • hair alternates between short and long positions (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • green pixelated text blocks (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • brown haired figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hair alternates between short and long positions

Animation Summary

  • Character hair alternates between short and long positions across two of four each; text remains static

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • pink
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • text above two of figures
  • figures on purple base against black background

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'Guss' appears top-left; 'who' top-right. Two identical yellow cartoon characters with large white eyes, pink mouths, and antennae are positioned next to a tall brown-haired figure. Text below reads 'made' left and 'WAFFLE?!?' right. The character's hair alternates between short (left) and long (right) in two rows of four panels each. All elements on solid black background with purple base under figures. Pixel art style uses limited color palette: green, yellow, brown, white, pink, purple.

Description

  • Pixelated green text and yellow cartoon character with brown hair, shown in multiple poses against black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080726143034381609064

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character brown hair green text
  • Guss who made WAFFLE?!? pixel art
  • green text yellow character black background
  • pixelated 'WAFFLE?!?' text yellow character

Objects

  • green pixelated text blocks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Character hair alternates between short and long positions across two rows of four panels each; text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: text above two rows of figures

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

  • yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, pink mouth, antennae
  • brown-haired figure

Visible Text

  • Guss
  • who
  • made
  • WAFFLE?!?

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • yellow cartoon character
  • brown hair
  • large white eyes
  • pink mouth
  • antennae
  • black background
  • purple base
  • 'Guss' text
  • 'who' text
  • 'made' text
  • 'WAFFLE?!?' text
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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
20080726143034381609064
Archive entry
20080726143034381609064.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080726143034381609064.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080726143034381609064.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016