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A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents.

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A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents.

A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents. 4…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central character
  • gray gradient background
  • text at bottom
  • scattered accents

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon with a central stylized character featuring a long orange tail extending rightward, a multicolored segmented body in green, yellow, red, and brown hues, and a white head with dark eyes. The background consists of a gray gradient with scattered white and green pixel clusters. At the bottom, there is a row of colorful pixelated text in green, cyan, pink, yellow, and red. The character appears to be in a dynamic pose with limbs extended. The overall style is low-resolution and blocky, typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized character orange tail
  • multicolored body pixelated text
  • gray background green accents
  • dynamic pose low-resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation reduces detail
  • low resolution affects clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Visible Text

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080728172109122528366

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080728172109122528366

Wordwall

  • stylized character
  • long orange tail
  • multicolored body
  • white head
  • gray background
  • green accents
  • white accents
  • pixelated text
  • dynamic pose
  • low-resolution
  • blocky style
  • green text
  • cyan text
  • pink text
  • yellow text
  • red text
  • gray gradient
  • scattered pixels
  • extended limbs
  • segmented body

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080728172109122528366
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e2627b581dad2b7edf0e747f07f9ea2afa6248d35e8b3261990007a177867c78.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
e2627b581dad2b7e
SHA-256
e2627b581dad2b7edf0e747f07f9ea2afa6248d35e8b3261990007a177867c78
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023182

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrowprovider flagged
Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 21:53 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
violence
Overall score
0.349844

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.349844trueself-harm0.080038falsesexual0.020138falseviolence/graphic0.005501falseself-harm/intent0.000378falseself-harm/instructions0.000320falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
nsfw
Overall score
0.742723

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,042 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 848

Review tags

  • dynamic pose (action, 0.80)
  • extending limbs (action, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • green accents (object, 0.80)
  • long orange tail (object, 0.80)
  • multicolored body segments (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (object, 0.80)
  • white accents (object, 0.80)
  • white head (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • extending limbs
  • dynamic pose

Colors

  • orange
  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • brown
  • white
  • gray
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • central character
  • gray gradient background
  • text at bottom
  • scattered accents

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated icon with a central stylized character featuring a long orange tail extending rightward, a multicolored segmented body in green, yellow, red, and brown hues, and a white head with dark eyes. The background consists of a gray gradient with scattered white and green pixel clusters. At the bottom, there is a row of colorful pixelated text in green, cyan, pink, yellow, and red. The character appears to be in a dynamic pose with limbs extended. The overall style is low-resolution and blocky, typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

A pixelated static image shows a stylized character with a long orange tail, multicolored body segments, and a white head against a gray background with green and white accents.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized character orange tail
  • multicolored body pixelated text
  • gray background green accents
  • dynamic pose low-resolution

Objects

  • long orange tail
  • multicolored body segments
  • white head
  • gray background
  • green accents
  • white accents
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • pixelation reduces detail
  • low resolution affects clarity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no authoritative visual evidence

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
  • stylized

Subjects

  • stylized character

Visible Text

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080728172109122528366

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080728172109122528366

Wordwall

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  • multicolored body
  • white head
  • gray background
  • green accents
  • white accents
  • pixelated text
  • dynamic pose
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  • blocky style
  • green text
  • cyan text
  • pink text
  • yellow text
  • red text
  • gray gradient
  • scattered pixels
  • extended limbs
  • segmented body
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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
20080728172109122528366
Archive entry
20080728172109122528366.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#20080728172109122528366.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080728172109122528366.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016