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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • asymmetrical background elements

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a stylized face with oversized circular eyes (one eye appears darker than the other), a wide open mouth showing no teeth or tongue details, and a rounded head shape. The figure's right side is lighter while left side has darker shading. Background consists of dark irregular shapes on both sides of the central figure. Pixelation creates blocky texture across entire image with visible dithering patterns in mid-tones.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art character
  • stared face with large eyes
  • dark background pixel icon
  • surprised expression grayscale image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be heavily pixelated or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090308171911285984995

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • stylized face
  • large circular eyes
  • open mouth
  • dark background elements
  • blocky texture
  • dithered mid-tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090308171911285984995
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d987c8d0956935aee1d37e001e04ae212879f31e7ac48bc4a6e07380e1d81cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
8d987c8d0956935a
SHA-256
8d987c8d0956935aee1d37e001e04ae212879f31e7ac48bc4a6e07380e1d81cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109825

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,835 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 736

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • startled (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • asymmetrical background elements

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a stylized face with oversized circular eyes (one eye appears darker than the other), a wide open mouth showing no teeth or tongue details, and a rounded head shape. The figure's right side is lighter while left side has darker shading. Background consists of dark irregular shapes on both sides of the central figure. Pixelation creates blocky texture across entire image with visible dithering patterns in mid-tones.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with large eyes and an open mouth, set against dark background elements.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • surprised
  • startled

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art character
  • stared face with large eyes
  • dark background pixel icon
  • surprised expression grayscale image

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be heavily pixelated or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale

Subjects

  • stylized character

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090308171911285984995

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • stylized face
  • large circular eyes
  • open mouth
  • dark background elements
  • blocky texture
  • dithered mid-tones
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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
20090308171911285984995
Archive entry
20090308171911285984995.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090308171911285984995.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090308171911285984995.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016