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Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays.

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Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays.

Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct poses in

Dense Caption

Red character with white eyes (black pupils), orange nose, yellow mouth interior. Top-left: hand near face, 'Elmo's World!' text. Top-right: open mouth, 'Ba Ba Ba' repeated twice. Bottom-left: heart symbol top-left corner, 'He He Tickle Me!' text. All backgrounds are solid white except bottom-left which has black border.

Description

  • Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo from Sesame Street

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808131321051758350460
  • FranksIcons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo's World Ba Ba Ba Tickle Me!
  • red character heart symbol
  • Ba Ba Ba repeated text
  • He He Tickle Me! text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four distinct poses in grid layout

Visible Text

  • Elmo's World!
  • Ba Ba Ba
  • Ba Ba Ba!
  • He He
  • Tickle Me!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo's World!

Wordwall

  • red character
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • orange nose
  • yellow mouth interior
  • heart symbol
  • 'Elmo's World!'
  • 'Ba Ba Ba' repeated twice
  • 'He He Tickle Me!'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808131321051758350460
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 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 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
acba08f2476d20b9
SHA-256
acba08f2476d20b98ad6e555c7ccc4273e2f992e201ef8e20b7ea0f3d1388204
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085311

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 18:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,654 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 676

Review tags

  • hand near face (action, 0.80)
  • heart symbol top left corner (action, 0.80)
  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • red character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand near face
  • open mouth
  • heart symbol top-left corner

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • four distinct poses in

Dense Caption

Red character with white eyes (black pupils), orange nose, yellow mouth interior. Top-left: hand near face, 'Elmo's World!' text. Top-right: open mouth, 'Ba Ba Ba' repeated twice. Bottom-left: heart symbol top-left corner, 'He He Tickle Me!' text. All backgrounds are solid white except bottom-left which has black border.

Description

  • Pixelated red character with large eyes and orange nose in four distinct poses, each paired with unique text overlays.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Elmo from Sesame Street

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808131321051758350460
  • FranksIcons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo's World Ba Ba Ba Tickle Me!
  • red character heart symbol
  • Ba Ba Ba repeated text
  • He He Tickle Me! text

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four distinct poses in grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • red character

Visible Text

  • Elmo's World!
  • Ba Ba Ba
  • Ba Ba Ba!
  • He He
  • Tickle Me!

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  • Elmo's World!

Wordwall

  • red character
  • white eyes with black pupils
  • orange nose
  • yellow mouth interior
  • heart symbol
  • 'Elmo's World!'
  • 'Ba Ba Ba' repeated twice
  • 'He He Tickle Me!'
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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
200808131321051758350460
Archive entry
200808131321051758350460.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808131321051758350460.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808131321051758350460.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016