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Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds.

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Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds.

Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • central object in bottom-center

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixel-art characters displayed in a grid layout. Top-left: blonde-haired figure in red hoodie with wide grin; top-middle: side-profile of blonde character with blue '<3' symbol over face; top-right: chibi-style blonde girl with red headband, large eyes, and open mouth; bottom-left: dark-haired character with 'FM' text overlay; bottom-center: white-and-black mechanical object resembling a sword or staff with 'FMA' text below it. All characters have blocky pixelated rendering typical of early 2000s digital art. Backgrounds are plain solid colors (white, green, gray).

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds.

Fandoms

  • Fullmetal Alchemist fandom

Identity Hypotheses

  • Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist characters

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080729193302546955762
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • anime-themed icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FMA text anime character
  • chibi blonde headband icon
  • FM text pixel art
  • <3 symbol anime icon
  • red hoodie grinning character
  • mechanical object FMA icon
  • blue text I F FM FMA icons
  • anime style <3 symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • I
  • F
  • FM
  • FMA
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist characters

Wordwall

  • blonde hair
  • red hoodie
  • <3 symbol
  • chibi style
  • headband
  • FM text
  • FMA text
  • mechanical object
  • wide grin
  • large eyes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080729193302546955762
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
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 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
fddabe786c9aaf44
SHA-256
fddabe786c9aaf44bf67497f23dafa8d55a3bc1f97a1a397874ce7aa26094a55
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092793

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,513 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 817

Review tags

  • grinning (action, 0.80)
  • looking forward (action, 0.80)
  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • headband (object, 0.80)
  • hoodie (object, 0.80)
  • sword like staff (object, 0.80)
  • anime style (style, 0.80)
  • chibi style (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • anime characters (subject, 0.80)
  • chibi character (subject, 0.80)
  • mechanical object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning
  • looking forward
  • open mouth

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • green

Composition

  • six
  • central object in bottom-center

Dense Caption

Six distinct pixel-art characters displayed in a grid layout. Top-left: blonde-haired figure in red hoodie with wide grin; top-middle: side-profile of blonde character with blue '<3' symbol over face; top-right: chibi-style blonde girl with red headband, large eyes, and open mouth; bottom-left: dark-haired character with 'FM' text overlay; bottom-center: white-and-black mechanical object resembling a sword or staff with 'FMA' text below it. All characters have blocky pixelated rendering typical of early 2000s digital art. Backgrounds are plain solid colors (white, green, gray).

Description

  • Pixelated anime-style character icons with overlaid blue text labels, featuring varied expressions and clothing against plain backgrounds.

Fandoms

  • Fullmetal Alchemist fandom

Identity Hypotheses

  • Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist characters

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080729193302546955762
  • FranksIcons
  • aim buddy icons
  • anime-themed icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • FMA text anime character
  • chibi blonde headband icon
  • FM text pixel art
  • <3 symbol anime icon
  • red hoodie grinning character
  • mechanical object FMA icon
  • blue text I F FM FMA icons
  • anime style <3 symbol

Objects

  • headband
  • hoodie
  • sword-like staff

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • anime style
  • chibi style

Subjects

  • anime characters
  • chibi character
  • mechanical object

Visible Text

  • I
  • F
  • FM
  • FMA
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Fullmetal Alchemist (FMA)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist characters

Wordwall

  • blonde hair
  • red hoodie
  • <3 symbol
  • chibi style
  • headband
  • FM text
  • FMA text
  • mechanical object
  • wide grin
  • large eyes
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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
20080729193302546955762
Archive entry
20080729193302546955762.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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

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