Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text

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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text

Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left image, top-right and bottom-left text , bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin tone, curly brown hair, and a green-and-orange striped elf hat; the background behind the head appears blurred in muted tones. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text on solid blue background reading "'Buddy the Elf,". Bottom-left quadrant displays white pixelated text on solid blue background reading "what's your favorite color?". Bottom-right quadrant is a plain light gray square with no visible content or texture.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text

Identity Hypotheses

  • Buddy the Elf (character)

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

Named Entities

  • Buddy the Elf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elf hat curly brown hair
  • Buddy the Elf text color question
  • blue background pixelated text
  • smiling person elf hat

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation frames or motion changes detected in this static representation
  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: light gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: blue background panels
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: top-left image, top-right and bottom-left text panels, bottom-right empty panel
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • 'Buddy the Elf,
  • what's your favorite color?"

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy the Elf

Wordwall

  • elf hat
  • green and orange stripes
  • curly brown hair
  • smiling face
  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • light gray

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090126181324169717000
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb65f4aad56bb0c4dce5a0b57e8785a61af53325b4179a41bcf1abe9764d39a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
fb65f4aad56bb0c4
SHA-256
fb65f4aad56bb0c4dce5a0b57e8785a61af53325b4179a41bcf1abe9764d39a9
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 01:42 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000540

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.135767

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,382 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 663

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • elf hat (subject, 0.80)
  • person with curly brown hair (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • brown
  • light gray
  • blue
  • white
  • muted background tones

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left image, top-right and bottom-left text , bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated close-up of a smiling person with light skin tone, curly brown hair, and a green-and-orange striped elf hat; the background behind the head appears blurred in muted tones. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text on solid blue background reading "'Buddy the Elf,". Bottom-left quadrant displays white pixelated text on solid blue background reading "what's your favorite color?". Bottom-right quadrant is a plain light gray square with no visible content or texture.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text

Identity Hypotheses

  • Buddy the Elf (character)

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

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Buddy the Elf

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elf hat curly brown hair
  • Buddy the Elf text color question
  • blue background pixelated text
  • smiling person elf hat

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no visible animation frames or motion changes detected in this static representation
  • quarantined description: Pixelated image of a person with curly brown hair wearing a green and orange striped hat, split into four quadrants with blue text panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: light gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: blue background panels
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: top-left image, top-right and bottom-left text panels, bottom-right empty panel
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person with curly brown hair
  • elf hat

Visible Text

  • 'Buddy the Elf,
  • what's your favorite color?"

Visually Supported Entities

  • Buddy the Elf

Wordwall

  • elf hat
  • green and orange stripes
  • curly brown hair
  • smiling face
  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • light gray
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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
20090126181324169717000
Archive entry
20090126181324169717000.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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