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Pixelated cartoon-style icon shows a character with a large red hat, white face, and black outline against a white background.

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon shows a character with a large red hat, white face, and black outline against a white background.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character head
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated cartoon-style image of a character's head and upper shoulders. The character has a large, wide-brimmed red hat with dark brown or black shading on the brim. The face is white with a simple black outline defining the head shape. The eyes are not clearly visible due to pixelation. The background is solid white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The character's hair or neck is not visible. The overall style is simple and cartoonish.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon-style icon shows a character with a large red hat, white face, and black outline against a white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hat cartoon character
  • pixelated white face icon
  • low resolution cartoon head
  • red hat white background icon

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • white face
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • solid white background
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • character head
  • wide brim

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807200807082078364144
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2ce0f5cc18133fdb9cedc940960ffa390b365f9900d7646b3c68d384c695807.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
d2ce0f5cc18133fd
SHA-256
d2ce0f5cc18133fdb9cedc940960ffa390b365f9900d7646b3c68d384c695807
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087890

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon-style icon shows a character with a large red hat, white face, and black outline against a white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,451 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red hat (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • centered character head
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a pixelated cartoon-style image of a character's head and upper shoulders. The character has a large, wide-brimmed red hat with dark brown or black shading on the brim. The face is white with a simple black outline defining the head shape. The eyes are not clearly visible due to pixelation. The background is solid white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. The character's hair or neck is not visible. The overall style is simple and cartoonish.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon-style icon shows a character with a large red hat, white face, and black outline against a white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red hat cartoon character
  • pixelated white face icon
  • low resolution cartoon head
  • red hat white background icon

Objects

  • red hat

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character head

Wordwall

  • red hat
  • white face
  • black outline
  • pixelated
  • cartoon style
  • solid white background
  • low resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • character head
  • wide brim
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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
200807200807082078364144
Archive entry
200807200807082078364144.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807200807082078364144.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807200807082078364144.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016