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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text.

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text.

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition: left character, right text block
  • character occupies 50% width
  • text block fills remaining space

Dense Caption

Yellow-skinned cartoon character with spiky brown hair (pixelated edges), large round eyes with black pupils, small nose, closed mouth in neutral expression. Character wears light blue collar visible at neck. Left side of image shows partial torso and arm. Right side features solid purple background rectangle containing pink pixelated text 'COWABUNGA' in uppercase sans-serif font. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style with dithering on hair edges.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text.

Fandoms

  • The Simpsons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712140545352105086765

Named Entities

  • Bart Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Bart Simpson cartoon
  • COWABUNGA text
  • yellow character purple background
  • pixelated cartoon text

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • COWABUNGA

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • spiky brown hair
  • large round eyes
  • light blue collar
  • purple background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • side profile
  • neutral expression

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712140545352105086765
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/927f3cb3efd0fdcc98f4ea1db7e8143297bfbed78633827fccf6804b231f7485.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
927f3cb3efd0fdcc
SHA-256
927f3cb3efd0fdcc98f4ea1db7e8143297bfbed78633827fccf6804b231f7485
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.198694

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:48 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 590

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • purple
  • pink
  • light blue

Composition

  • split composition: left character, right text block
  • character occupies 50% width
  • text block fills remaining space

Dense Caption

Yellow-skinned cartoon character with spiky brown hair (pixelated edges), large round eyes with black pupils, small nose, closed mouth in neutral expression. Character wears light blue collar visible at neck. Left side of image shows partial torso and arm. Right side features solid purple background rectangle containing pink pixelated text 'COWABUNGA' in uppercase sans-serif font. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style with dithering on hair edges.

Description

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and spiky hair, side profile view against white background; adjacent purple rectangle contains pink text.

Fandoms

  • The Simpsons

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712140545352105086765

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Bart Simpson

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Bart Simpson cartoon
  • COWABUNGA text
  • yellow character purple background
  • pixelated cartoon text

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution
  • simplified cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • COWABUNGA

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • spiky brown hair
  • large round eyes
  • light blue collar
  • purple background
  • pink text
  • pixelated
  • side profile
  • neutral expression
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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
200712140545352105086765
Archive entry
200712140545352105086765.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#200712140545352105086765.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712140545352105086765.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016