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Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing background.

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Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing background.

Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central character
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a stylized character with multicolored hair transitioning from purple to pink to orange on the left side and green to yellow on the right side. The character has a large, round eye with a dark pupil and blue iris. The background features a gradient of purple, pink, and white pixels. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081015131812986010891

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • multicolored hair character
  • pixelated eye image
  • low-resolution gradient background
  • stylized character with purple pink orange green yellow hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Wordwall

  • multicolored hair
  • purple pink orange green yellow
  • large round eye
  • dark pupil blue iris
  • gradient background
  • pixelated blocky appearance
  • no text
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081015131812986010891
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af245772248a749db0b7c86fcce9e11838c3611ef51b8eafc292435fcad84379.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
af245772248a749d
SHA-256
af245772248a749db0b7c86fcce9e11838c3611ef51b8eafc292435fcad84379
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 20:36 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000066

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 04:23 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016004

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
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1136
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.366664

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,903 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 771

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • orange
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central character
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a stylized character with multicolored hair transitioning from purple to pink to orange on the left side and green to yellow on the right side. The character has a large, round eye with a dark pupil and blue iris. The background features a gradient of purple, pink, and white pixels. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance with visible pixelation. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a stylized character with multicolored hair and a bright, glowing 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081015131812986010891

Mood

  • mysterious
  • vibrant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated eye image
  • low-resolution gradient background
  • stylized character with purple pink orange green yellow hair

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • stylized character

Wordwall

  • multicolored hair
  • purple pink orange green yellow
  • large round eye
  • dark pupil blue iris
  • gradient background
  • pixelated blocky appearance
  • no text
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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
20081015131812986010891
Archive entry
20081015131812986010891.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081015131812986010891.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081015131812986010891.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016