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Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background.

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Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background.

Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered left
  • speech bubble top right

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated cartoon character with oversized circular white-ringed eyes, purple pupils, and light green fin-like appendage. Character has rounded head shape with small protrusion at top. Yellow rectangular speech bubble contains partially legible blue text reading 'down'. Background is solid dark blue with subtle lighter blue pixel variations. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2008062720301495908522
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character yellow speech bubble down text
  • pixelated anime character blue background
  • large white-ringed eyes green appendage
  • yellow speech bubble 'down' text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • down

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime character

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • large white-ringed eyes
  • yellow speech bubble
  • text: down
  • dark blue background
  • light green appendage
  • pixelated 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008062720301495908522
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f92635c8838b9fd78987e4b14f4ee55351c1f04fdc95affed87e47276a250bd4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
f92635c8838b9fd7
SHA-256
f92635c8838b9fd78987e4b14f4ee55351c1f04fdc95affed87e47276a250bd4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080424

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 651

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • white
  • green
  • purple

Composition

  • character centered left
  • speech bubble top right

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated cartoon character with oversized circular white-ringed eyes, purple pupils, and light green fin-like appendage. Character has rounded head shape with small protrusion at top. Yellow rectangular speech bubble contains partially legible blue text reading 'down'. Background is solid dark blue with subtle lighter blue pixel variations. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated blue cartoon character with large eyes and a yellow speech bubble containing 'down' text on dark blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2008062720301495908522
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character yellow speech bubble down text
  • pixelated anime character blue background
  • large white-ringed eyes green appendage
  • yellow speech bubble 'down' text

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • down

Visually Supported Entities

  • anime character

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • large white-ringed eyes
  • yellow speech bubble
  • text: down
  • dark blue background
  • light green appendage
  • pixelated 8-bit style
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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
2008062720301495908522
Archive entry
2008062720301495908522.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#2008062720301495908522.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008062720301495908522.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016