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Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions.

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Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions.

Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • facial expression change
  • eyes narrowing
  • mouth closing
  • teeth disappearing

Animation Summary

Character transitions from wide-eyed surprised expression with open mouth and visible teeth to narrowed-eyed annoyed expression with closed mouth and no teeth.

Composition

  • side-by-side frames
  • character centered
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated penguin character frames side-by-side. Character has black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair. Left frame shows wide eyes with blue highlights, open mouth with orange interior, and visible teeth. Right frame shows narrowed eyes, closed mouth, and no teeth. Both frames have black wings, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair. Pixelation is consistent across both frames. Character stands upright with arms at sides. Background is solid white.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • style: pixel art
  • colors: black, white, orange, blue
  • composition: side-by-side frames
  • mood: surprised, annoyed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin wide eyes
  • penguin narrowed eyes closed mouth
  • black body white belly orange feet
  • blue highlights eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era but pixels show consistent low-resolution style

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels do not confirm specific era or collection

Style

  • 2D

Wordwall

  • pixelated penguin
  • black body
  • white belly
  • orange feet
  • spiky black hair
  • wide eyes
  • narrowed eyes
  • open mouth
  • closed mouth
  • visible teeth
  • no teeth
  • blue highlights
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009072305373651546715
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d91513a5fb71dd4acdeb454a88485699b51a5f2d24341ed6a124fd51c49c385f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
d91513a5fb71dd4a
SHA-256
d91513a5fb71dd4acdeb454a88485699b51a5f2d24341ed6a124fd51c49c385f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070011

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,960 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 772

Review tags

  • closed mouth (action, 0.80)
  • narrowed eyes (action, 0.80)
  • no teeth (action, 0.80)
  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • visible teeth (action, 0.80)
  • wide eyes (action, 0.80)
  • annoyed (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • penguin character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • wide eyes
  • narrowed eyes
  • open mouth
  • closed mouth
  • visible teeth
  • no teeth

Animation

  • facial expression change
  • eyes narrowing
  • mouth closing
  • teeth disappearing

Animation Summary

Character transitions from wide-eyed surprised expression with open mouth and visible teeth to narrowed-eyed annoyed expression with closed mouth and no teeth.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • blue

Composition

  • side-by-side frames
  • character centered
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Two pixelated penguin character frames side-by-side. Character has black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair. Left frame shows wide eyes with blue highlights, open mouth with orange interior, and visible teeth. Right frame shows narrowed eyes, closed mouth, and no teeth. Both frames have black wings, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair. Pixelation is consistent across both frames. Character stands upright with arms at sides. Background is solid white.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin character with black body, white belly, orange feet, and spiky black hair, displaying two distinct facial expressions.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • style: pixel art
  • colors: black, white, orange, blue
  • composition: side-by-side frames
  • mood: surprised, annoyed

Mood

  • surprised
  • annoyed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin wide eyes
  • penguin narrowed eyes closed mouth
  • black body white belly orange feet
  • blue highlights eyes

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era but pixels show consistent low-resolution style

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but pixels do not confirm specific era or collection

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • penguin character

Wordwall

  • pixelated penguin
  • black body
  • white belly
  • orange feet
  • spiky black hair
  • wide eyes
  • narrowed eyes
  • open mouth
  • closed mouth
  • visible teeth
  • no teeth
  • blue highlights
  • solid white background
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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
2009072305373651546715
Archive entry
2009072305373651546715.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#2009072305373651546715.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009072305373651546715.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016