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Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners across frames.

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Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners across frames.

Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners acros…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text moves from top-left to top-right to bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • The 'AE' text moves from top-left to top-right to bottom-left across frames while the character remains static.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text in corners

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with a gray face, glowing red eyes, and an orange-brown headdress. The character wears a striped collar with brown and orange tones. In the top-left frame, 'AE' text appears in white block letters on a black background at the top-left corner. In the top-right frame, 'AE' text is positioned at the top-right corner. In the bottom-left frame, 'AE' text is at the bottom-left corner. The background is a textured gray pattern. The character's expression is neutral with a slightly downturned mouth. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191648031895512787
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • AE text character
  • glowing red eyes character
  • striped collar character
  • text position changes character
  • retro digital art character
  • gray face character
  • pixelated character
  • AE text corners

Preprocessing Notes

  • text position changes across frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191648031895512787
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Visible Text

  • AE

Visually Supported Entities

  • AE

Wordwall

  • glowing red eyes
  • orange-brown headdress
  • striped collar
  • gray face
  • AE text
  • black-and-white block letters
  • text position changes
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • brown and orange collar
  • pixelated
  • text corners

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806191648031895512787
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e72b71126603716866144a95102c92551fe5cd4f4a71321ebb3fd235e5c4dd67.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
e72b711266037168
SHA-256
e72b71126603716866144a95102c92551fe5cd4f4a71321ebb3fd235e5c4dd67
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077714

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928673onnx/unsafe0.077714onnx/nsfw0.038910onnx/nsfl0.038804
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 869

Review tags

  • text position changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • ae text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text position changes

Animation

  • text moves from top-left to top-right to bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • The 'AE' text moves from top-left to top-right to bottom-left across frames while the character remains static.

Colors

  • gray
  • red
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • character centered
  • text in corners

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with a gray face, glowing red eyes, and an orange-brown headdress. The character wears a striped collar with brown and orange tones. In the top-left frame, 'AE' text appears in white block letters on a black background at the top-left corner. In the top-right frame, 'AE' text is positioned at the top-right corner. In the bottom-left frame, 'AE' text is at the bottom-left corner. The background is a textured gray pattern. The character's expression is neutral with a slightly downturned mouth. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

Pixelated character with glowing red eyes and orange-brown headdress, wearing striped collar, with 'AE' text in black-and-white block letters positioned at different corners across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191648031895512787
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • AE text character
  • glowing red eyes character
  • striped collar character
  • text position changes character
  • retro digital art character
  • gray face character
  • pixelated character
  • AE text corners

Objects

  • AE text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text position changes across frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806191648031895512787
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • AE

Visually Supported Entities

  • AE

Wordwall

  • glowing red eyes
  • orange-brown headdress
  • striped collar
  • gray face
  • AE text
  • black-and-white block letters
  • text position changes
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • neutral expression
  • gray background
  • brown and orange collar
  • pixelated
  • text corners
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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
200806191648031895512787
Archive entry
200806191648031895512787.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806191648031895512787.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806191648031895512787.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016