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Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them.

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Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them.

Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left: yellow Pikachu with red cheeks and black-tipped ears, mouth open showing pink tongue, standing on a yellow background with white and blue elements; black text banner reads "Travis V". Top-right: orange Charmander with black eye and pink mouth, standing on white background; black text banner reads "Loves". Bottom-left: blue Squirtle with orange shell and pink belly, standing on white background; black text banner reads "Pokemon!". All characters are 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The bottom-right quadrant is empty gray.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Pikachu Travis V
  • Charmander Loves
  • Squirtle Pokemon!
  • 8-bit Pokemon characters
  • text banner cartoon
  • yellow orange blue pixel art
  • Pikachu Charmander Squirtle
  • Travis V Loves Pokemon!

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Travis V
  • Loves
  • Pokemon!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Pikachu
  • Charmander
  • Squirtle

Wordwall

  • Pikachu
  • Charmander
  • Squirtle
  • Travis V
  • Loves
  • Pokemon!
  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • black text
  • white background
  • 8-bit
  • pixelated
  • text banner
  • red cheeks
  • pink tongue
  • pink mouth
  • orange shell
  • pink belly
  • yellow background
  • white and blue elements
  • empty gray quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201007300329042147130070
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
a0f2778d8da15219
SHA-256
a0f2778d8da15219a170de766625c90581ad562265625b6e96f571d77583ef09
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089200

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,299 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 788

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text banner (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • charmander (subject, 0.80)
  • pikachu (subject, 0.80)
  • squirtle (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • red
  • pink

Composition

  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left: yellow Pikachu with red cheeks and black-tipped ears, mouth open showing pink tongue, standing on a yellow background with white and blue elements; black text banner reads "Travis V". Top-right: orange Charmander with black eye and pink mouth, standing on white background; black text banner reads "Loves". Bottom-left: blue Squirtle with orange shell and pink belly, standing on white background; black text banner reads "Pokemon!". All characters are 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The bottom-right quadrant is empty gray.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters with overlaid text: Pikachu, Charmander, and Squirtle each have text banners across them.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Charmander Loves
  • Squirtle Pokemon!
  • 8-bit Pokemon characters
  • text banner cartoon
  • yellow orange blue pixel art
  • Pikachu Charmander Squirtle
  • Travis V Loves Pokemon!

Objects

  • text banner

Style

  • 8-bit
  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • Pikachu
  • Charmander
  • Squirtle

Visible Text

  • Travis V
  • Loves
  • Pokemon!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Pikachu
  • Charmander
  • Squirtle

Wordwall

  • Pikachu
  • Charmander
  • Squirtle
  • Travis V
  • Loves
  • Pokemon!
  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • black text
  • white background
  • 8-bit
  • pixelated
  • text banner
  • red cheeks
  • pink tongue
  • pink mouth
  • orange shell
  • pink belly
  • yellow background
  • white and blue elements
  • empty gray quadrant
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201007300329042147130070
Archive entry
201007300329042147130070.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201007300329042147130070.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201007300329042147130070.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016