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A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right

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A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right

A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three characters
  • empty

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated grid with three Sesame Street characters. Top-left: Elmo, red muppet with large white eyes and orange nose, mouth open in a smile, wearing red costume, background dark brown. Top-right: Big Bird, yellow muppet with blue eyes, tongue out, waving right hand, background white with small green rectangular shape top-right. Bottom-left: Ernie, orange muppet with black hair, large white eyes with blue pupils, red nose, striped shirt, background yellow. Bottom-right: empty gray panel. All characters are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo Big Bird Ernie
  • Sesame Street characters pixelated
  • red yellow orange muppets
  • striped shirt blue eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains grid layout with three character panels and one empty panel
  • quarantined description: A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a grid with a gray panel on the right.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: empty panel
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Elmo Big Bird Ernie grid

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

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie

Wordwall

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie
  • Sesame Street
  • red muppet
  • yellow muppet
  • orange muppet
  • striped shirt
  • tongue out
  • waving hand
  • open mouth
  • white background
  • yellow background
  • gray
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blue eyes
  • white eyes
  • red nose
  • green shape

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005191446592019818242
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/95/951da29349f89225ce3b0ca951508d5e36e84f39658ca377c0c52cd368c541e6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
951da29349f89225
SHA-256
951da29349f89225ce3b0ca951508d5e36e84f39658ca377c0c52cd368c541e6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084158

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,804 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 810

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • tongue out (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • green shape (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • big bird (subject, 0.80)
  • elmo (subject, 0.80)
  • ernie (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving
  • tongue out
  • open mouth

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • orange
  • white
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three characters
  • empty

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated grid with three Sesame Street characters. Top-left: Elmo, red muppet with large white eyes and orange nose, mouth open in a smile, wearing red costume, background dark brown. Top-right: Big Bird, yellow muppet with blue eyes, tongue out, waving right hand, background white with small green rectangular shape top-right. Bottom-left: Ernie, orange muppet with black hair, large white eyes with blue pupils, red nose, striped shirt, background yellow. Bottom-right: empty gray panel. All characters are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a with a gray on the right

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo Big Bird Ernie
  • Sesame Street characters pixelated
  • red yellow orange muppets
  • striped shirt blue eyes

Objects

  • green shape

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains grid layout with three character panels and one empty panel
  • quarantined description: A static pixelated image of three Sesame Street characters: Elmo, Big Bird, and Ernie, arranged in a grid with a gray panel on the right.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: empty panel
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Elmo Big Bird Ernie grid

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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie

Wordwall

  • Elmo
  • Big Bird
  • Ernie
  • Sesame Street
  • red muppet
  • yellow muppet
  • orange muppet
  • striped shirt
  • tongue out
  • waving hand
  • open mouth
  • white background
  • yellow background
  • gray
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blue eyes
  • white eyes
  • red nose
  • green shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
201005191446592019818242
Archive entry
201005191446592019818242.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005191446592019818242.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005191446592019818242.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016