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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a dark background.

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a dark background.

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character on left
  • light object on right
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale composition featuring a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile. The character's face is positioned on the left side of the frame, with a large, light-colored object extending horizontally across the right side. A small green pixel cluster appears on the right side of the light object. The background is dark, with scattered light and dark pixels creating a textured effect. The character's expression is cheerful, with visible teeth. The image has a retro digital art style with heavy pixelation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20091011113334740430657

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated character green cluster
  • cheerful expression light object
  • retro digital art dark background
  • stylized character holding green object

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • grayscale

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • broad smile
  • green pixel cluster
  • dark background
  • retro digital art
  • cheerful expression
  • light object

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091011113334740430657
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
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 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
b08a37fa5b64d664
SHA-256
b08a37fa5b64d6647e62a667429691adde852384fca909f86bbb481a9b6bdf25
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087769

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,328 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 835

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • light object (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • green pixel cluster (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • green

Composition

  • character on left
  • light object on right
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated grayscale composition featuring a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile. The character's face is positioned on the left side of the frame, with a large, light-colored object extending horizontally across the right side. A small green pixel cluster appears on the right side of the light object. The background is dark, with scattered light and dark pixels creating a textured effect. The character's expression is cheerful, with visible teeth. The image has a retro digital art style with heavy pixelation.

Description

Pixelated grayscale image of a stylized character with a large head, wide eyes, and a broad smile, holding a green object against a 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20091011113334740430657

Mood

  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • cheerful expression light object
  • retro digital art dark background
  • stylized character holding green object

Objects

  • light object

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • grayscale

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stylized character
  • green pixel cluster

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • broad smile
  • green pixel cluster
  • dark background
  • retro digital art
  • cheerful expression
  • light object
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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
20091011113334740430657
Archive entry
20091011113334740430657.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091011113334740430657.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091011113334740430657.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016