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Pixelated yellow and purple circular icon with a dark purple background, featuring a stylized face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth.

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Pixelated yellow and purple circular icon with a dark purple background, featuring a stylized face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central circular subject
  • symmetrical purple accents

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image with a dark purple background. The central subject is a circular shape composed of yellow and purple pixels. The yellow area forms a rounded face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth. Purple pixels create a wing-like or ear-like shape on the left side and a smaller shape on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and purple circular icon with a dark purple background, featuring a stylized face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080630093427629542752

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiling face pixel art
  • purple accent pixel icon
  • dark purple background pixel art
  • closed eyes smiling face
  • retro digital icon

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • dark purple background
  • yellow face
  • purple accents
  • closed eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • pixelated
  • circular shape
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080630093427629542752
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
8cd7f9cbd88eba75
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated yellow and purple circular icon with a dark purple background, featuring a stylized face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 665

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • face (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • dark purple
  • yellow
  • purple

Composition

  • central circular subject
  • symmetrical purple accents

Dense Caption

The icon is a static pixelated image with a dark purple background. The central subject is a circular shape composed of yellow and purple pixels. The yellow area forms a rounded face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth. Purple pixels create a wing-like or ear-like shape on the left side and a smaller shape on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow and purple circular icon with a dark purple background, featuring a stylized face with closed eyes and a smiling mouth.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080630093427629542752

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow smiling face pixel art
  • purple accent pixel icon
  • dark purple background pixel art
  • closed eyes smiling face
  • retro digital icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • face

Wordwall

  • dark purple background
  • yellow face
  • purple accents
  • closed eyes
  • smiling mouth
  • pixelated
  • circular shape
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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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
20080630093427629542752
Archive entry
20080630093427629542752.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080630093427629542752.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080630093427629542752.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016