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Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above.

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Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above.

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • shapes shift position

Animation Summary

The icon shows a static yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above the character across the animation frames.

Composition

  • central character
  • blue background
  • upper shapes

Dense Caption

The icon features a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smiling expression, positioned centrally against a solid blue background. The character has a rounded head and a small neck. Above the character, there are orange and yellow shapes that appear to be moving or changing position across the animation frames. The shapes include a larger orange form and smaller yellow elements. The animation shows subtle shifts in the position of these upper shapes while the character remains static. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901170733451998042682

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow cartoon character blue background
  • smiling character moving shapes
  • blue background yellow character
  • pixelated cartoon character animation
  • yellow shapes blue background
  • closed eyes smiling character
  • moving orange shapes animation
  • blue background cartoon character

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray area on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • closed eyes
  • smiling expression
  • blue background
  • orange shapes
  • yellow shapes
  • pixelated graphics
  • low-resolution
  • static character
  • moving upper shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901170733451998042682
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8ed28d7c7c53b88edabce2df0a9cc5f1551b490a346881888b34d967174509cd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
8ed28d7c7c53b88e
SHA-256
8ed28d7c7c53b88edabce2df0a9cc5f1551b490a346881888b34d967174509cd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079596

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 858

Review tags

  • shapes move (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • orange shapes (object, 0.80)
  • yellow shapes (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • yellow cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shapes move

Animation

  • shapes shift position

Animation Summary

The icon shows a static yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above the character across the animation frames.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • central character
  • blue background
  • upper shapes

Dense Caption

The icon features a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smiling expression, positioned centrally against a solid blue background. The character has a rounded head and a small neck. Above the character, there are orange and yellow shapes that appear to be moving or changing position across the animation frames. The shapes include a larger orange form and smaller yellow elements. The animation shows subtle shifts in the position of these upper shapes while the character remains static. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Animated icon shows a yellow cartoon character with closed eyes and a smile against a blue background, with orange and yellow shapes moving above.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200901170733451998042682

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • smiling character moving shapes
  • blue background yellow character
  • pixelated cartoon character animation
  • yellow shapes blue background
  • closed eyes smiling character
  • moving orange shapes animation
  • blue background cartoon character

Objects

  • orange shapes
  • yellow shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray area on the right side

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • yellow cartoon character

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon character
  • closed eyes
  • smiling expression
  • blue background
  • orange shapes
  • yellow shapes
  • pixelated graphics
  • low-resolution
  • static character
  • moving upper shapes
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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
200901170733451998042682
Archive entry
200901170733451998042682.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901170733451998042682.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901170733451998042682.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016