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Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds.

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Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds.

Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no motion changes

Composition

  • four distinct sections
  • text overlays on character
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head. The character appears in four distinct sections across the frame: top-left displays 'People must love sarcasm', top-right shows 'because they say', bottom-left contains 'im not a G', and the right side is empty gray space. Cyan text on black backgrounds overlays the character, each word or phrase rendered with sharp edges typical of early digital graphics. The background is light gray with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080421150017872115528

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character sarcasm because they say im not a G
  • grayscale cartoon large eyes rounded head cyan text black backgrounds
  • pixelated image four distinct sections light gray background

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • People must love sarcasm
  • because they say
  • im not a G

Wordwall

  • grayscale cartoon character
  • large eyes
  • rounded head
  • cyan text
  • black text backgrounds
  • pixelated image
  • four distinct sections
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080421150017872115528
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3c62779b7879cb1944a744ac04b1c6381b7c7ff3bb5158ea000e9d47b920ffc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
b3c62779b7879cb1
SHA-256
b3c62779b7879cb1944a744ac04b1c6381b7c7ff3bb5158ea000e9d47b920ffc
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 03:19 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.007134

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 07:03 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,035 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 660

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no motion changes

Colors

  • gray
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • four distinct sections
  • text overlays on character
  • light gray background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head. The character appears in four distinct sections across the frame: top-left displays 'People must love sarcasm', top-right shows 'because they say', bottom-left contains 'im not a G', and the right side is empty gray space. Cyan text on black backgrounds overlays the character, each word or phrase rendered with sharp edges typical of early digital graphics. The background is light gray with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale cartoon character with large eyes and a rounded head, overlaid with cyan text blocks on black backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080421150017872115528

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character sarcasm because they say im not a G
  • grayscale cartoon large eyes rounded head cyan text black backgrounds
  • pixelated image four distinct sections light gray background

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • People must love sarcasm
  • because they say
  • im not a G

Wordwall

  • grayscale cartoon character
  • large eyes
  • rounded head
  • cyan text
  • black text backgrounds
  • pixelated image
  • four distinct sections
  • light gray 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
20080421150017872115528
Archive entry
20080421150017872115528.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080421150017872115528.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080421150017872115528.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016