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Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns.

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Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns.

Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns. 50×50 GIF AIM b…

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Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • swirling background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, circular, pixelated image with a dark brown background. It features a central stylized face with large blue eyes, a small black nose, and a red mark on the forehead. The face is surrounded by swirling patterns in warm brown, orange, and beige tones. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation. No text is present in the image. The composition is centered with the face as the focal point, and the surrounding patterns create a circular, swirling effect.

Description

Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated circular icon brown orange
  • stylized face blue eyes red mark
  • swirling patterns retro digital art
  • low-resolution pixel art brown background
  • blue eyes red forehead mark
  • circular composition swirling background
  • retro digital art pixelated icon
  • brown orange blue red pixel art

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  • pixelated
  • circular
  • brown
  • orange
  • blue eyes
  • red mark
  • swirling patterns
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art
  • central face
  • dark background
  • no text
  • stylized
  • warm tones
  • pixelation
  • circular composition
  • red forehead mark
  • swirling background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081120154058329461095
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
f8f76c131ff3bb39
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:31 UTC
Run
70
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,873 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 745

Review tags

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  • blue
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Dense Caption

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Description

Pixelated circular icon with warm brown and orange tones, featuring a stylized face with blue eyes and a red mark on the forehead, surrounded by swirling patterns.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • stylized face blue eyes red mark
  • swirling patterns retro digital art
  • low-resolution pixel art brown background
  • blue eyes red forehead mark
  • circular composition swirling background
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  • brown orange blue red pixel art

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  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • stylized face

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  • no text
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  • pixelation
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  • red forehead mark
  • swirling 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
20081120154058329461095
Archive entry
20081120154058329461095.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081120154058329461095.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081120154058329461095.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016