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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and large eyes on blue background, next to green background with blue text.

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and large eyes on blue background, next to green background with blue text.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, and a brown mouth on blue background. Character has yellow hair with black outline. Green background on right side with blue pixelated text 'Homer' in lowercase. Character wears white shirt. Image uses 8-bit style with visible pixelation and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and large eyes on blue background, next to green background with blue text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer

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

Named Entities

  • Homer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer cartoon character
  • yellow skin cartoon
  • blue background green background
  • pixelated Homer text
  • 8-bit Homer icon
  • cartoon character yellow hair
  • Homer blue text
  • split background cartoon icon

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Homer

Visually Supported Entities

  • Homer

Wordwall

  • yellow skin
  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown mouth
  • yellow hair
  • blue background
  • green background
  • blue text
  • white shirt
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit style
  • text 'Homer'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111109131044217481851
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bda4622ace09ab387e7dfec0a4e139c108617adc89eec21a0ba3ba9711146f52.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
bda4622ace09ab38
SHA-256
bda4622ace09ab387e7dfec0a4e139c108617adc89eec21a0ba3ba9711146f52
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093157

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and large eyes on blue background, next to green background with blue text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,795 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,138, response 655

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • green
  • white
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • split background
  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin, large white eyes with black pupils, and a brown mouth on blue background. Character has yellow hair with black outline. Green background on right side with blue pixelated text 'Homer' in lowercase. Character wears white shirt. Image uses 8-bit style with visible pixelation and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with yellow skin and large eyes on blue background, next to green background with blue text.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Homer

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

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Homer

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Homer cartoon character
  • yellow skin cartoon
  • blue background green background
  • pixelated Homer text
  • 8-bit Homer icon
  • cartoon character yellow hair
  • Homer blue text
  • split background cartoon icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Homer

Visually Supported Entities

  • Homer

Wordwall

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  • large white eyes
  • black pupils
  • brown mouth
  • yellow hair
  • blue background
  • green background
  • blue text
  • white shirt
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit style
  • text 'Homer'
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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
20111109131044217481851
Archive entry
20111109131044217481851.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20111109131044217481851.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20111109131044217481851.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016