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Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on black background.

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Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on black background.

Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left pink character
  • top-right blue character
  • bottom-left yellow character
  • text above and below characters

Dense Caption

Black background displays three pixel-art characters: top-left pink variant has single eye dot and curved mouth; top-right blue variant shows 'da' text inside head shape; bottom-left orange-yellow variant features 'best' text below. All share rounded heads with spiky outlines, small eyes, and curved mouths. Top row contains two characters; bottom row one character. Text elements include 'OwenB25' at top left.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue yellow cartoon character
  • da best text pixel art
  • cartoon character single eye dot
  • spiky outline cartoon characters

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • OwenB25
  • da
  • best

Visually Supported Entities

  • OwenB25

Wordwall

  • pink cartoon character
  • blue cartoon character
  • 'da' text on blue character
  • yellow-orange cartoon character
  • 'best' text below yellow character
  • single eye dot per character
  • curved mouth per character
  • spiky outline per character

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091223031019894285838
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aaea1bc742c5a030dcf0d9eb0f9ec4754faa2bab884dccdb3bdb835fc1b56eb0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
aaea1bc742c5a030
SHA-256
aaea1bc742c5a030dcf0d9eb0f9ec4754faa2bab884dccdb3bdb835fc1b56eb0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110125

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,821 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,100, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow orange (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • yellow-orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • top-left pink character
  • top-right blue character
  • bottom-left yellow character
  • text above and below characters

Dense Caption

Black background displays three pixel-art characters: top-left pink variant has single eye dot and curved mouth; top-right blue variant shows 'da' text inside head shape; bottom-left orange-yellow variant features 'best' text below. All share rounded heads with spiky outlines, small eyes, and curved mouths. Top row contains two characters; bottom row one character. Text elements include 'OwenB25' at top left.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with rounded head and spiky outline in pink, blue, and yellow variants on 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink blue yellow cartoon character
  • da best text pixel art
  • cartoon character single eye dot
  • spiky outline cartoon characters

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • OwenB25
  • da
  • best

Visually Supported Entities

  • OwenB25

Wordwall

  • pink cartoon character
  • blue cartoon character
  • 'da' text on blue character
  • yellow-orange cartoon character
  • 'best' text below yellow character
  • single eye dot per character
  • curved mouth per character
  • spiky outline per character
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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
20091223031019894285838
Archive entry
20091223031019894285838.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091223031019894285838.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091223031019894285838.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016