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A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements.

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A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements.

A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • 4x4 grid
  • square icons
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 grid of small square icons. Each icon contains a stylized cartoon face with large eyes and simple features. Top row: leftmost has dark hair on light background; second from left shows a face with green border; third has black-and-white patterned background; rightmost displays pink accents. Middle row: left is circular with pink center; middle-left has green background; middle-right shows white background with blue elements; rightmost features dark hair on blue background. Bottom row: left icon has red and green borders; second from left contains a face with black eye detail; third has brownish-green border; rightmost displays pink accents on light blue background. All icons are pixelated, low-resolution, and static.

Description

A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon faces pixelated grid
  • green blue pink icons
  • low-resolution static cartoon
  • 4x4 icon collection

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates contact sheet or collection view; no motion observed in pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Uncertain Text

  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • 4x4 grid
  • cartoon faces
  • large eyes
  • green background
  • blue elements
  • pink accents
  • black-and-white patterned
  • red borders
  • brownish-green border
  • light blue background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static icons

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803141325042088726078
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c780c91decdbac31781dd3e71a6c85e42abdebdf51dedbabcf0c606b3eaaeb1b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
c780c91decdbac31
SHA-256
c780c91decdbac31781dd3e71a6c85e42abdebdf51dedbabcf0c606b3eaaeb1b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 01:50 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000507

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000507falsesexual0.000062falseself-harm0.000012falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.179718

OpenAI category scores

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A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:55 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,277 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 789

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brownish green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon faces (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • red
  • brownish-green
  • light blue

Composition

  • 4x4 grid
  • square icons
  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image is a 4x4 grid of small square icons. Each icon contains a stylized cartoon face with large eyes and simple features. Top row: leftmost has dark hair on light background; second from left shows a face with green border; third has black-and-white patterned background; rightmost displays pink accents. Middle row: left is circular with pink center; middle-left has green background; middle-right shows white background with blue elements; rightmost features dark hair on blue background. Bottom row: left icon has red and green borders; second from left contains a face with black eye detail; third has brownish-green border; rightmost displays pink accents on light blue background. All icons are pixelated, low-resolution, and static.

Description

A static grid of pixelated cartoon faces with varied expressions, colors, and backgrounds including green, blue, black, pink, and white elements.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon faces pixelated grid
  • green blue pink icons
  • low-resolution static cartoon
  • 4x4 icon collection

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout indicates contact sheet or collection view; no motion observed in pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon faces

Uncertain Text

  • ?

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

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  • cartoon faces
  • large eyes
  • green background
  • blue elements
  • pink accents
  • black-and-white patterned
  • red borders
  • brownish-green border
  • light blue background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static icons
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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
200803141325042088726078
Archive entry
200803141325042088726078.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803141325042088726078.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803141325042088726078.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016