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Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames.

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Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames.

Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • eye state changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Character's eyes transition from open to closed across frames; one frame shows standing on gray platform.

Composition

  • states
  • top-left to bottom-right sequence

Dense Caption

Brown-haired pixelated character with pink inner cat ears and a brown tail wears a black jacket over white shirt. Six distinct frame states show: top-left (eyes open), top-middle (eyes closed), top-right (eyes open, standing on gray platform), bottom-left (eyes half-closed), bottom-middle (eyes open). All frames share identical clothing and pose except eye state and one frame's background. Pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 201403282150221597267405

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat-eared character pixel art
  • brown hair black jacket animation
  • eyes close open animation
  • gray platform cat ears

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six frame states

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • pink inner cat ears
  • brown tail
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • eyes closed
  • eyes open
  • gray platform

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201403282150221597267405
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
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a7001c7435950da50e7c183bb6c0e48aebb6fa8154aa2ff88c93ba0afeb24e51.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
a7001c7435950da5
SHA-256
a7001c7435950da50e7c183bb6c0e48aebb6fa8154aa2ff88c93ba0afeb24e51
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080801

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 670

Review tags

  • eyes close (action, 0.80)
  • eyes open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • gray platform (object, 0.80)
  • chibi (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat eared character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • eyes close
  • eyes open

Animation

  • eye state changes across frames

Animation Summary

  • Character's eyes transition from open to closed across frames; one frame shows standing on gray platform.

Colors

  • brown
  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • states
  • top-left to bottom-right sequence

Dense Caption

Brown-haired pixelated character with pink inner cat ears and a brown tail wears a black jacket over white shirt. Six distinct frame states show: top-left (eyes open), top-middle (eyes closed), top-right (eyes open, standing on gray platform), bottom-left (eyes half-closed), bottom-middle (eyes open). All frames share identical clothing and pose except eye state and one frame's background. Pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixel art character with brown hair, cat ears, and a tail in black suit; eyes closed then open across frames.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 201403282150221597267405

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat-eared character pixel art
  • brown hair black jacket animation
  • eyes close open animation
  • gray platform cat ears

Objects

  • gray platform

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six frame states

Style

  • pixel art
  • chibi

Subjects

  • cat-eared character

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • pink inner cat ears
  • brown tail
  • black jacket
  • white shirt
  • eyes closed
  • eyes open
  • gray platform
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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
201403282150221597267405
Archive entry
201403282150221597267405.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#201403282150221597267405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201403282150221597267405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016