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Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts.

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Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts.

Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eyes close and open
  • red hearts appear and float

Animation Summary

  • Character's eyes close and open while red hearts float around the head.

Composition

  • single character centered
  • hearts scattered around head
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Pixelated chibi-style character has light brown-orange spiky hair, pink inner cat ears, and a matching tail. The character wears a black sleeveless vest over a white long-sleeve shirt with a teal tie. Expressions change across frames: leftmost frame shows open eyes; middle frame shows closed eyes with blushing cheeks; rightmost frame shows open eyes with multiple red hearts floating around the head. Background is solid white except for one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Description

Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20131006182402808019936

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hair cat ears vest
  • chibi character with hearts
  • pixel art anime character
  • red heart floating animation

Visually Supported Entities

  • chibi character with cat ears and tail

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • cat ears
  • tail
  • black vest
  • white shirt
  • teal tie
  • red hearts
  • blushing cheeks
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20131006182402808019936
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9f/9f4420201a4adf821e306489d56af47302de5812d104b93898f1b55695d67deb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
9f4420201a4adf82
SHA-256
9f4420201a4adf821e306489d56af47302de5812d104b93898f1b55695d67deb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.081104

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:25 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,511 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 742

Review tags

  • cheeks blushing (action, 0.80)
  • eyes closing (action, 0.80)
  • heart floating (action, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • red heart icons (object, 0.80)
  • anime inspired (style, 0.80)
  • chibi (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat eared figure (subject, 0.80)
  • chibi character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • heart floating
  • eyes closing
  • cheeks blushing

Animation

  • eyes close and open
  • red hearts appear and float

Animation Summary

  • Character's eyes close and open while red hearts float around the head.

Colors

  • orange
  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • teal
  • gray
  • red

Composition

  • single character centered
  • hearts scattered around head
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Pixelated chibi-style character has light brown-orange spiky hair, pink inner cat ears, and a matching tail. The character wears a black sleeveless vest over a white long-sleeve shirt with a teal tie. Expressions change across frames: leftmost frame shows open eyes; middle frame shows closed eyes with blushing cheeks; rightmost frame shows open eyes with multiple red hearts floating around the head. Background is solid white except for one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Description

Pixel art character with orange hair, cat ears, and tail in black vest over white shirt; expressions shift from neutral to smiling with hearts.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20131006182402808019936

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hair cat ears vest
  • chibi character with hearts
  • pixel art anime character
  • red heart floating animation

Objects

  • red heart icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • chibi
  • anime-inspired

Subjects

  • chibi character
  • cat-eared figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • chibi character with cat ears and tail

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • cat ears
  • tail
  • black vest
  • white shirt
  • teal tie
  • red hearts
  • blushing cheeks
  • closed eyes
  • open eyes
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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
20131006182402808019936
Archive entry
20131006182402808019936.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#20131006182402808019936.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20131006182402808019936.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016