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A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right.

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A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right.

A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • vertical division

Dense Caption

Left side: grayscale pixelated image of a character with long dark hair, wearing a light-colored top, head tilted down with eyes closed, arms crossed. Right side: solid purple background with green pixelated text reading 'random' in lowercase letters. The image is split vertically with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character grayscale
  • purple green text
  • random text
  • split-screen pixelated

Subjects

  • anime character

Visible Text

  • random

Wordwall

  • grayscale anime character
  • long dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • eyes closed
  • arms crossed
  • purple background
  • green text
  • random
  • pixelated
  • split-screen

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708250934511668192731
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/add8d564d73b10be1336cba32b2b99ab3b4db168b02d7483e56240c8c56e4d39.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
add8d564d73b10be
SHA-256
add8d564d73b10be1336cba32b2b99ab3b4db168b02d7483e56240c8c56e4d39
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Run
1349
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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August 1, 2026 at 22:00 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:05 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,423 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 588

Review tags

  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • anime (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • anime character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • grayscale
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • split-screen
  • vertical division

Dense Caption

Left side: grayscale pixelated image of a character with long dark hair, wearing a light-colored top, head tilted down with eyes closed, arms crossed. Right side: solid purple background with green pixelated text reading 'random' in lowercase letters. The image is split vertically with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a grayscale anime-style character on the left and green text on a purple background on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime character grayscale
  • purple green text
  • random text
  • split-screen pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • anime

Subjects

  • anime character

Visible Text

  • random

Wordwall

  • grayscale anime character
  • long dark hair
  • light-colored top
  • eyes closed
  • arms crossed
  • purple background
  • green text
  • random
  • pixelated
  • split-screen
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:02 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708250934511668192731
Archive entry
200708250934511668192731.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708250934511668192731.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708250934511668192731.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016