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A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow background.

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A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow background.

A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Circular-shaped static icon with low-resolution pixelation. Central subject is an animal resembling a dog or fox with light brown fur on its back and head, white fur on its chest and face, and dark brown patches around the eyes. The animal's body faces left while its head turns right toward the viewer. It has small rounded ears, a short snout, and visible black eyes. Background is solid muted greenish-yellow with no additional elements or text. Pixelation creates soft edges and limited detail.

Description

  • A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown animal white chest
  • muted green background pixelated
  • dog-like fox-like turning head right
  • circular icon low-resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Subjects

  • animal

Visually Supported Entities

  • animal

Wordwall

  • animal
  • dog-like
  • fox-like
  • light brown fur
  • white chest
  • dark eye patches
  • muted green background
  • circular shape
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712051535111435934598
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f4576c0579be2d04fd93cef32799254405d07fa3d414c882addf21d17ed8bd56.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
f4576c0579be2d04
SHA-256
f4576c0579be2d04fd93cef32799254405d07fa3d414c882addf21d17ed8bd56
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069162

OpenAI category scores

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A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow background.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:28 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 672

Review tags

  • turning head right (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • muted greenish yellow (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • animal (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • turning head right

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • dark brown
  • black
  • muted greenish-yellow

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Circular-shaped static icon with low-resolution pixelation. Central subject is an animal resembling a dog or fox with light brown fur on its back and head, white fur on its chest and face, and dark brown patches around the eyes. The animal's body faces left while its head turns right toward the viewer. It has small rounded ears, a short snout, and visible black eyes. Background is solid muted greenish-yellow with no additional elements or text. Pixelation creates soft edges and limited detail.

Description

  • A circular pixelated image shows a light brown and white animal with dark eyes, positioned against a muted greenish-yellow 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light brown animal white chest
  • muted green background pixelated
  • dog-like fox-like turning head right
  • circular icon low-resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality from original source

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • animal

Visually Supported Entities

  • animal

Wordwall

  • animal
  • dog-like
  • fox-like
  • light brown fur
  • white chest
  • dark eye patches
  • muted green background
  • circular shape
  • pixelated
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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
200712051535111435934598
Archive entry
200712051535111435934598.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712051535111435934598.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712051535111435934598.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016