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Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and red.

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Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and red.

Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; the image is a static composite of four quadrants showing different views of Elmo's face.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left full face
  • top-right partial view
  • bottom-left close-up
  • bottom-right gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated Elmo face with red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Background is solid yellow. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" with "I'm watching" in gray and "you always" in red. The image is divided into four quadrants; the top-left quadrant shows the full face, top-right shows a partial view with a large orange nose, bottom-left shows a close-up of the face, and bottom-right is gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and red.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907231300131240619168
  • 200907231300161627900247

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo yellow background
  • I'm watching you always
  • pixelated Elmo
  • four quadrants Elmo
  • red fur Elmo
  • gray text Elmo
  • blocky Elmo
  • creepy Elmo

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static composite of four quadrants; no animation is present.

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

Visible Text

  • I'm watching you always

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo

Wordwall

  • Elmo
  • red fur
  • yellow background
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • orange nose
  • black smile
  • I'm watching you always
  • gray text
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • four quadrants
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right
  • gray quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907231300131240619168
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907231300161627900247
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f230634c9290bc89446d56dafcafc972cc04b2fc415f56080a9f93c03654813.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
9f230634c9290bc8
SHA-256
9f230634c9290bc89446d56dafcafc972cc04b2fc415f56080a9f93c03654813
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078477

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930989onnx/unsafe0.078477onnx/nsfw0.043727onnx/nsfl0.034749
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Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and red.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,334 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,157, response 870

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • creepy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • elmo (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; the image is a static composite of four quadrants showing different views of Elmo's face.

Colors

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

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left full face
  • top-right partial view
  • bottom-left close-up
  • bottom-right gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated Elmo face with red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Background is solid yellow. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" with "I'm watching" in gray and "you always" in red. The image is divided into four quadrants; the top-left quadrant shows the full face, top-right shows a partial view with a large orange nose, bottom-left shows a close-up of the face, and bottom-right is gray. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated Elmo face with yellow background, red fur, large white eyes with black pupils, orange nose, and wide black smile. Text above reads "I'm watching you always" in gray and red.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907231300131240619168
  • 200907231300161627900247

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • creepy

Named Entities

  • Elmo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo yellow background
  • I'm watching you always
  • pixelated Elmo
  • four quadrants Elmo
  • red fur Elmo
  • gray text Elmo
  • blocky Elmo
  • creepy Elmo

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image is a static composite of four quadrants; no animation is present.

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • Elmo

Visible Text

  • I'm watching you always

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo

Wordwall

  • Elmo
  • red fur
  • yellow background
  • white eyes
  • black pupils
  • orange nose
  • black smile
  • I'm watching you always
  • gray text
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • four quadrants
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right
  • gray quadrant
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Full source records (2)

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
200907231300131240619168
Archive entry
200907231300131240619168.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907231300131240619168.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907231300131240619168.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200907231300161627900247
Archive entry
200907231300161627900247.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907231300161627900247.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907231300161627900247.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016