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Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze

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Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze

Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct icons
  • text labels overlaid on characters

Dense Caption

Top-left icon shows a gray metallic anthropomorphic hedgehog with spiky quills, blue pants, green shoes, and a red belt; black rectangular label reads 'silver'. Top-right icon depicts a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with white gloves, green eyes, yellow muzzle, and brown nose; black label reads 'sonic'. Bottom-left icon features a golden-yellow anthropomorphic hedgehog with glowing effects on dark background; black label reads 'shadow'. Bottom-right icon shows a purple anthropomorphic fox with long ears, red headband, white chest fur, and purple dress; black label reads 'blaze'. All icons use pixel art style with solid backgrounds.

Description

  • Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze

Identity Hypotheses

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

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

Named Entities

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • silver sonic shadow blaze icons
  • anthropomorphic hedgehog fox pixel art
  • silver sonic shadow blaze text labels
  • gray blue golden purple character icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four pixelated character icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

Visually Supported Entities

  • silver (character)
  • sonic (character)
  • shadow (character)
  • blaze (character)

Wordwall

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze
  • anthropomorphic hedgehog
  • purple fox
  • pixel art
  • text labels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905232200251792203922
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c1/c11472d8b7ad47284919cdaa58e1c18190f75c25aae24c0a54b02bc5b5d850f5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
c11472d8b7ad4728
SHA-256
c11472d8b7ad47284919cdaa58e1c18190f75c25aae24c0a54b02bc5b5d850f5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115352

OpenAI category scores

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Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,079 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 746

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple dress (object, 0.80)
  • red belt (object, 0.80)
  • red headband (object, 0.80)
  • white gloves (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue anthropomorphic hedgehog (subject, 0.80)
  • golden yellow anthropomorphic hedgehog (subject, 0.80)
  • gray metallic anthropomorphic hedgehog (subject, 0.80)
  • purple anthropomorphic fox (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • purple
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • four distinct icons
  • text labels overlaid on characters

Dense Caption

Top-left icon shows a gray metallic anthropomorphic hedgehog with spiky quills, blue pants, green shoes, and a red belt; black rectangular label reads 'silver'. Top-right icon depicts a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog with white gloves, green eyes, yellow muzzle, and brown nose; black label reads 'sonic'. Bottom-left icon features a golden-yellow anthropomorphic hedgehog with glowing effects on dark background; black label reads 'shadow'. Bottom-right icon shows a purple anthropomorphic fox with long ears, red headband, white chest fur, and purple dress; black label reads 'blaze'. All icons use pixel art style with solid backgrounds.

Description

  • Four pixelated character icons arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels: silver, sonic, shadow, and blaze

Identity Hypotheses

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

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

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  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

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  • anthropomorphic hedgehog fox pixel art
  • silver sonic shadow blaze text labels
  • gray blue golden purple character icons

Objects

  • red belt
  • white gloves
  • red headband
  • purple dress

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art

Subjects

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  • blue anthropomorphic hedgehog
  • golden-yellow anthropomorphic hedgehog
  • purple anthropomorphic fox

Visible Text

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze

Visually Supported Entities

  • silver (character)
  • sonic (character)
  • shadow (character)
  • blaze (character)

Wordwall

  • silver
  • sonic
  • shadow
  • blaze
  • anthropomorphic hedgehog
  • purple fox
  • pixel art
  • text labels
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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
200905232200251792203922
Archive entry
200905232200251792203922.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905232200251792203922.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905232200251792203922.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016