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Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text.

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Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text.

Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated cheese wedge character with a light beige body, brown rind top edge, two black dot eyes, a curved smile line, and one small orange spot on its right side. It has short stubby arms and legs. The background is solid white within a thin dark border. Above the character, 'cheese man' text appears in pixelated yellow font with black outline. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cheese man pixel art
  • smiling cheese icon
  • 8-bit cheese wedge

Visible Text

  • cheese man

Visually Supported Entities

  • cheese wedge character

Wordwall

  • cheese wedge
  • smiling face
  • brown rind
  • orange spot
  • white background
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090611102733741547818
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb12b0509e95bb15e8aa32857a15139be4c2a60823bcaf1798ca9fcb1c4af85c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
fb12b0509e95bb15
SHA-256
fb12b0509e95bb15e8aa32857a15139be4c2a60823bcaf1798ca9fcb1c4af85c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089858

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,462 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 595

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • brown rind (object, 0.80)
  • orange spot (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cheese wedge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • beige
  • brown
  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered character
  • text above
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated cheese wedge character with a light beige body, brown rind top edge, two black dot eyes, a curved smile line, and one small orange spot on its right side. It has short stubby arms and legs. The background is solid white within a thin dark border. Above the character, 'cheese man' text appears in pixelated yellow font with black outline. The image uses 8-bit style rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cheese wedge with smiling face, brown rind, and small orange spot on white background under 'cheese man' text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cheese man pixel art
  • smiling cheese icon
  • 8-bit cheese wedge

Objects

  • brown rind
  • orange spot

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cheese wedge character

Visible Text

  • cheese man

Visually Supported Entities

  • cheese wedge character

Wordwall

  • cheese wedge
  • smiling face
  • brown rind
  • orange spot
  • white background
  • pixelated text
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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
20090611102733741547818
Archive entry
20090611102733741547818.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090611102733741547818.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090611102733741547818.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016