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Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a black background.

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Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a black background.

Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital illustration featuring a stylized human-like figure with light brown skin tone. The figure has oversized dark circular eyes with small white highlights, a rounded nose, and visible white teeth in its mouth. It holds a thin metallic object resembling a microphone near its right side. The background is solid black. Below the figure, blue pixelated text reads "click da rapper" with partial letters extending beyond the frame on both sides.

Description

Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080518095344575295892
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • click da rapper microphone cartoon
  • brown skin pixel art text
  • microphone blue text black background
  • pixelated character holding silver object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • click da rapper

Visually Supported Entities

  • click da rapper

Wordwall

  • brown skin
  • large black eyes
  • white teeth
  • silver microphone
  • black background
  • blue text
  • pixelated style
  • text: click da rapper

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080518095344575295892
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ab/ab1dd87a8c03cf71be55c760bbc3d1427d1920170b526e298904882e3ac5dc7d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
ab1dd87a8c03cf71
SHA-256
ab1dd87a8c03cf71be55c760bbc3d1427d1920170b526e298904882e3ac5dc7d
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
0.130046

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a black background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:27 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,533 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 751

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital illustration (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • silver
  • blue

Composition

  • centered figure
  • text below figure
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated digital illustration featuring a stylized human-like figure with light brown skin tone. The figure has oversized dark circular eyes with small white highlights, a rounded nose, and visible white teeth in its mouth. It holds a thin metallic object resembling a microphone near its right side. The background is solid black. Below the figure, blue pixelated text reads "click da rapper" with partial letters extending beyond the frame on both sides.

Description

Pixelated image of a cartoon character with brown skin, large black eyes, and white teeth holding a silver microphone against a 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080518095344575295892
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • click da rapper microphone cartoon
  • brown skin pixel art text
  • microphone blue text black background
  • pixelated character holding silver object

Objects

  • microphone

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital illustration

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • click da rapper

Visually Supported Entities

  • click da rapper

Wordwall

  • brown skin
  • large black eyes
  • white teeth
  • silver microphone
  • black background
  • blue text
  • pixelated style
  • text: click da rapper
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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
20080518095344575295892
Archive entry
20080518095344575295892.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080518095344575295892.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080518095344575295892.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016