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Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue.

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Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue.

Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue. 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central character
  • gradient background
  • text on object

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white rectangular object with blue text. The background features a gradient of yellow, orange, and blue. The character's mouth is open, and there are small dark circular elements on the left and bottom left. The white object has blue text that is partially legible as 'S' and 'E' with other characters obscured. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks.

Description

Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue.

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
  • 20080911151501987167953
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair green eyes pixel art
  • blue text white object
  • yellow orange blue gradient
  • small dark circles character

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080911151501987167953
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Uncertain Text

  • S
  • E

Visible Text

  • S
  • E

Wordwall

  • red hair
  • green eyes
  • white object
  • blue text
  • yellow background
  • orange background
  • blue background
  • small dark circles
  • open mouth
  • pixelated
  • gradient background
  • rectangular object
  • partially legible text
  • color blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080911151501987167953
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a3163a1303f3958996b605145c2eb8ace295e67bdeb29589950ed1937ee5acd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
9a3163a1303f3958
SHA-256
9a3163a1303f3958996b605145c2eb8ace295e67bdeb29589950ed1937ee5acd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100257

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.899743onnx/unsafe0.100257onnx/nsfw0.068284onnx/nsfl0.031973
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Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,430 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 809

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • small dark circles (object, 0.80)
  • white rectangular object (object, 0.80)
  • gradient background (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • open mouth

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central character
  • gradient background
  • text on object

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white rectangular object with blue text. The background features a gradient of yellow, orange, and blue. The character's mouth is open, and there are small dark circular elements on the left and bottom left. The white object has blue text that is partially legible as 'S' and 'E' with other characters obscured. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with distinct color blocks.

Description

Pixelated image of a character with red hair and green eyes holding a white object with blue text, set against a gradient background of yellow, orange, and blue.

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
  • 20080911151501987167953
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hair green eyes pixel art
  • blue text white object
  • yellow orange blue gradient
  • small dark circles character

Objects

  • white rectangular object
  • small dark circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080911151501987167953
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • gradient background

Subjects

  • character

Uncertain Text

  • S
  • E

Visible Text

  • S
  • E

Wordwall

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  • green eyes
  • white object
  • blue text
  • yellow background
  • orange background
  • blue background
  • small dark circles
  • open mouth
  • pixelated
  • gradient background
  • rectangular object
  • partially legible text
  • color blocks
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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
20080911151501987167953
Archive entry
20080911151501987167953.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080911151501987167953.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080911151501987167953.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016