Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes

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Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes

Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Animation

  • text changes: 'elmo is' → 'gangsta'
  • no pose or background motion

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from 'elmo is' to 'gangsta' across while character pose and background remain static

Composition

  • single subject centered
  • background

Dense Caption

Elmo character rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. Red face, orange nose, white eyes with black pupils. Purple knit hat, yellow overalls with blue accents, green boots with black soles. Left hand raised in thumbs-up pose. Background is light gray grid pattern. Top-left panel displays 'elmo is' text overlay; top-right panel shows 'gangsta' replacing 'is'; bottom-left panel has no text overlay. All panels share identical character pose and background.

Description

  • Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo thumbs-up pixel art
  • gangsta text overlay
  • no text Elmo
  • pixelated Sesame Street character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three panels showing text changes.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlay changes from 'elmo is' to 'gangsta' across panels while character pose and background remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: light gray grid
  • quarantined composition: grid background
  • quarantined retrieval: no text Elmo panel

Visible Text

  • elmo is
  • gangsta

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo character

Wordwall

  • Elmo
  • red face
  • purple hat
  • yellow overalls
  • green boots
  • thumbs-up
  • pixel art
  • text overlay
  • light gray
  • no text

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810111649052044102367
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c11b3dae43a6eeaff46ee29b1dd8b23f49ea18bb8456c8d572f393c16655fd0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
8c11b3dae43a6eea
SHA-256
8c11b3dae43a6eeaff46ee29b1dd8b23f49ea18bb8456c8d572f393c16655fd0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089235

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,699 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 635

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • elmo character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • giving thumbs-up gesture

Animation

  • text changes: 'elmo is' → 'gangsta'
  • no pose or background motion

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from 'elmo is' to 'gangsta' across while character pose and background remain static

Colors

  • red
  • purple
  • yellow
  • green
  • black
  • light gray

Composition

  • single subject centered
  • background

Dense Caption

Elmo character rendered in low-resolution pixel art style. Red face, orange nose, white eyes with black pupils. Purple knit hat, yellow overalls with blue accents, green boots with black soles. Left hand raised in thumbs-up pose. Background is light gray grid pattern. Top-left panel displays 'elmo is' text overlay; top-right panel shows 'gangsta' replacing 'is'; bottom-left panel has no text overlay. All panels share identical character pose and background.

Description

  • Pixelated Elmo character in yellow pants and green boots with purple hat, giving thumbs-up gesture across three showing text changes

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

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  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • gangsta text overlay
  • no text Elmo
  • pixelated Sesame Street character

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlay changes from 'elmo is' to 'gangsta' across panels while character pose and background remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: light gray grid
  • quarantined composition: grid background
  • quarantined retrieval: no text Elmo panel

Style

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  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Elmo character

Visible Text

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  • gangsta

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo character

Wordwall

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  • red face
  • purple hat
  • yellow overalls
  • green boots
  • thumbs-up
  • pixel art
  • text overlay
  • light gray
  • no 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
200810111649052044102367
Archive entry
200810111649052044102367.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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