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Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct characters and text labels

Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct characters and text labels. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text labels below characters

Dense Caption

Top-left: Red background with brown-haired character labeled 'Keesh'. Top-middle: Orange round character with yellow ears labeled 'Sparks', neutral expression. Top-right: Green and white creature with raised hand labeled 'Cinder'. Bottom-left: Black scribbles on white background labeled '(Cracker)'. Bottom-middle: Orange character with pink flowers, hearts, and a silver object labeled 'Buggy', wide eyes. Bottom-right: Light-colored creature with blue ears and yellow sparks labeled 'Boltnut', smiling face.

Description

  • Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct characters and text labels

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons with text labels
  • pixel art characters red background
  • orange creature yellow ears
  • green white creature raised hand
  • scribbled figure Cracker
  • flower decorated Buggy
  • blue ear Boltnut sparks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with distinct characters and text labels.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout

Visible Text

  • Keesh
  • Sparks
  • Cinder
  • (Cracker)
  • Buggy
  • Boltnut

Visually Supported Entities

  • Keesh
  • Sparks
  • Cinder
  • (Cracker)
  • Buggy
  • Boltnut

Wordwall

  • red background
  • brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • yellow ears
  • green creature
  • white hand
  • scribbles
  • pink flowers
  • hearts
  • silver object
  • blue ears
  • yellow sparks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110406151159861850306
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/ad183a93f8bb40ec0679f88470f174ebb25cea41b9bd0fbead3a37822b5ba9f0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
ad183a93f8bb40ec
SHA-256
ad183a93f8bb40ec0679f88470f174ebb25cea41b9bd0fbead3a37822b5ba9f0
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
0.128011

OpenAI category scores

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Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct characters and text labels

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:44 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,575 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,160, response 739

Review tags

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  • smiling face (action, 0.80)
  • wide eyes (action, 0.80)
  • yellow sparks (action, 0.80)
  • pink flowers (object, 0.80)
  • red hearts (object, 0.80)
  • blue eared creature (subject, 0.80)
  • flower decorated orange creature (subject, 0.80)
  • green and white creature (subject, 0.80)
  • humanoid character (subject, 0.80)
  • round orange creature (subject, 0.80)
  • scribbled figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised hand
  • wide eyes
  • smiling face
  • yellow sparks

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • blue
  • silver

Composition

  • text labels below characters

Dense Caption

Top-left: Red background with brown-haired character labeled 'Keesh'. Top-middle: Orange round character with yellow ears labeled 'Sparks', neutral expression. Top-right: Green and white creature with raised hand labeled 'Cinder'. Bottom-left: Black scribbles on white background labeled '(Cracker)'. Bottom-middle: Orange character with pink flowers, hearts, and a silver object labeled 'Buggy', wide eyes. Bottom-right: Light-colored creature with blue ears and yellow sparks labeled 'Boltnut', smiling face.

Description

  • Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a , each with distinct characters and text labels

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons with text labels
  • pixel art characters red background
  • orange creature yellow ears
  • green white creature raised hand
  • scribbled figure Cracker
  • flower decorated Buggy
  • blue ear Boltnut sparks

Objects

  • pink flowers
  • red hearts
  • silver object

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six pixel-art buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with distinct characters and text labels.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • hand-drawn

Subjects

  • humanoid character
  • round orange creature
  • green and white creature
  • scribbled figure
  • flower-decorated orange creature
  • blue-eared creature

Visible Text

  • Keesh
  • Sparks
  • Cinder
  • (Cracker)
  • Buggy
  • Boltnut

Visually Supported Entities

  • Keesh
  • Sparks
  • Cinder
  • (Cracker)
  • Buggy
  • Boltnut

Wordwall

  • red background
  • brown hair
  • neutral expression
  • yellow ears
  • green creature
  • white hand
  • scribbles
  • pink flowers
  • hearts
  • silver object
  • blue ears
  • yellow sparks
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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
20110406151159861850306
Archive entry
20110406151159861850306.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#20110406151159861850306.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110406151159861850306.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016