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Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object.

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Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object.

Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object. An…

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Style

Mood

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Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • centered subjects
  • bordered frames

Dense Caption

Left character: white hamster with orange hair, closed eyes, red collar, holding a brown fish with blue fins. Right character: white hamster with gray hair, closed eyes, red collar, holding a green object with brown accents. Both have pink inner ears, beige backgrounds, and rounded shapes. Left has red border, right has blue border. Text "WELCOME" in red at bottom left. Pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 201203030125261469963101
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hamster fish
  • gray hamster green object
  • WELCOME text hamster
  • pixelated hamster buddy icon

Visible Text

  • WELCOME

Wordwall

  • orange-haired hamster
  • gray-haired hamster
  • closed eyes
  • red collar
  • fish prop
  • green object prop
  • pink inner ears
  • beige background
  • red border
  • blue border
  • WELCOME text
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201203030125261469963101
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
c151af207b432932
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
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July 22, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
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Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:54 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,901 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 771

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
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  • fish (object, 0.80)
  • green object (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • blue
  • green
  • pink
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • two characters side-by-side
  • centered subjects
  • bordered frames

Dense Caption

Left character: white hamster with orange hair, closed eyes, red collar, holding a brown fish with blue fins. Right character: white hamster with gray hair, closed eyes, red collar, holding a green object with brown accents. Both have pink inner ears, beige backgrounds, and rounded shapes. Left has red border, right has blue border. Text "WELCOME" in red at bottom left. Pixelated rendering style with visible dithering.

Description

Two pixelated hamster characters with distinct poses and accessories on beige backgrounds, one with orange hair holding a fish, the other with gray hair holding a green object.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • 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: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 201203030125261469963101
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Mood

  • cheerful
  • friendly

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • gray hamster green object
  • WELCOME text hamster
  • pixelated hamster buddy icon

Objects

  • fish
  • green object

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • hamster

Visible Text

  • WELCOME

Wordwall

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  • gray-haired hamster
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  • fish prop
  • green object prop
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  • beige background
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  • blue border
  • WELCOME text
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering
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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
201203030125261469963101
Archive entry
201203030125261469963101.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#201203030125261469963101.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201203030125261469963101.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016