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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • low-resolution

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified, cartoonish animal head facing left. The creature has prominent rounded ears, a small circular eye on the right side of its face, and a broad snout. Its body extends downward into a curved shape resembling a tail or lower jaw. The image uses only black, white, and gray tones with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms. Background is solid dark gray.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark 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 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806061519491821703907

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale animal head pixel art
  • large ears small eye cartoon
  • dark background pixelated creature

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • animal head
  • large ears
  • small eye
  • rounded snout
  • curved body shape
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806061519491821703907
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/acbb19a1ca4863a2b872a890d12a8383fe8c15b566ff720605d3bcc530564345.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
acbb19a1ca4863a2
SHA-256
acbb19a1ca4863a2b872a890d12a8383fe8c15b566ff720605d3bcc530564345
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081266

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark background.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,078 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • animal head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • dark background
  • low-resolution

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art depicts a simplified, cartoonish animal head facing left. The creature has prominent rounded ears, a small circular eye on the right side of its face, and a broad snout. Its body extends downward into a curved shape resembling a tail or lower jaw. The image uses only black, white, and gray tones with visible pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms. Background is solid dark gray.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized animal head with large ears and a rounded snout against dark 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 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806061519491821703907

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale animal head pixel art
  • large ears small eye cartoon
  • dark background pixelated creature

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoonish
  • simplified

Subjects

  • animal head

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • animal head
  • large ears
  • small eye
  • rounded snout
  • curved body shape
  • dark background
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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
200806061519491821703907
Archive entry
200806061519491821703907.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806061519491821703907.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806061519491821703907.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016