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Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background.

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Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background.

Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background. 50×50 GIF A…

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  • 2x2 grid
  • character centered in each quadrant
  • black background

Dense Caption

Four static frames arranged in a 2x2 grid show a stylized character with a large white question mark head and a white body. Top-left frame: green dot on lower body. Top-right frame: yellow dot on upper body. Bottom-left frame: red dot on upper body. Bottom-right frame: red dot on lower body with a small dark green dot above it. All frames have a black background with a thin gray grid line separating the quadrants. The character's head is consistently positioned in the upper half of each frame. The image is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • question mark head green dot
  • question mark head yellow dot
  • question mark head red dot
  • green dot yellow dot red dot
  • pixelated character dots
  • 2x2 grid question mark
  • black background pixel art
  • stylized character dot colors

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  • question mark head
  • green dot
  • yellow dot
  • red dot
  • black background
  • gray grid
  • pixelated
  • 2x2 grid
  • white character
  • small dark green dot

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810242019141507842117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9e/9e01481fd90bfdc1c0d1b32ff829826402026350f584711bbd01adc38783bf42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
9e01481fd90bfdc1
SHA-256
9e01481fd90bfdc1c0d1b32ff829826402026350f584711bbd01adc38783bf42
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 16:13 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.071296

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,658 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 721

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • stylized (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • dark green

Composition

  • 2x2 grid
  • character centered in each quadrant
  • black background

Dense Caption

Four static frames arranged in a 2x2 grid show a stylized character with a large white question mark head and a white body. Top-left frame: green dot on lower body. Top-right frame: yellow dot on upper body. Bottom-left frame: red dot on upper body. Bottom-right frame: red dot on lower body with a small dark green dot above it. All frames have a black background with a thin gray grid line separating the quadrants. The character's head is consistently positioned in the upper half of each frame. The image is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

Four static pixelated frames show a stylized character with a question mark head, each frame displaying a different colored dot on its body against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • question mark head yellow dot
  • question mark head red dot
  • green dot yellow dot red dot
  • pixelated character dots
  • 2x2 grid question mark
  • black background pixel art
  • stylized character dot colors

Objects

  • question mark head
  • dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • stylized character

Wordwall

  • question mark head
  • green dot
  • yellow dot
  • red dot
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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
200810242019141507842117
Archive entry
200810242019141507842117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810242019141507842117.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810242019141507842117.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016