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Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below.

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Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below.

Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text spans lower portion
  • microphone held above head

Dense Caption

Pixelated static icon features a cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, rendered in black, white, and gray tones. The character holds a microphone in its right hand, positioned above its head. Orange text spans horizontally across the lower portion of the icon, partially overlapping the character's body. The background is solid white. The character's left arm extends downward. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky pixel style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below.

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

  • cartoon character holding microphone
  • orange text below character
  • pixelated low-resolution icon
  • black white gray orange colors

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • MORRIS

Wordwall

  • black-and-white cartoon character
  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • small mouth
  • holding microphone
  • orange text
  • solid white background
  • low-resolution pixel style
  • left arm extends downward
  • text spans lower portion

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090106143054546660165
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fbb9782249a9668ba91437bc5d49e18f5a1b500465d720b19c8374ba94bf9734.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
fbb9782249a9668b
SHA-256
fbb9782249a9668ba91437bc5d49e18f5a1b500465d720b19c8374ba94bf9734
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.082916

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,926 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 682

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • orange

Composition

  • character centered
  • text spans lower portion
  • microphone held above head

Dense Caption

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Description

Pixelated icon shows a black-and-white cartoon character with a large head, wide eyes, and a small mouth, holding a microphone, with orange text below.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character holding microphone
  • orange text below character
  • pixelated low-resolution icon
  • black white gray orange colors

Objects

  • microphone

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • MORRIS

Wordwall

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  • large head
  • wide eyes
  • small mouth
  • holding microphone
  • orange text
  • solid white background
  • low-resolution pixel style
  • left arm extends downward
  • text spans lower portion
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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
20090106143054546660165
Archive entry
20090106143054546660165.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090106143054546660165.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090106143054546660165.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016