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A pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holds a sword, with 'level' text below.

A pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holds a sword, with 'level' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character pose changes

Animation Summary

  • The character's pose changes slightly between frames while holding a sword, with 'level' text visible below.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holding a sword. The character's pose changes slightly between frames. Below the character, the text 'level' appears in a pixelated font. The background is a light gradient. The character's hair is brown, and the shorts are blue. The sword is brown. The text 'level' is black with white outlines. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holds a sword, with 'level' 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081017161722578208085

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character sword level
  • brown hair blue shorts level
  • character holding sword level
  • pixelated level text sword

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • level

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue shorts
  • sword
  • level text
  • pixelated
  • light background
  • character pose
  • text below

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081017161722578208085
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe3a3c6948a654d9e58c4fa64544da9b0c7299d4b215ff03c8c5e797607dcda9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
fe3a3c6948a654d9
SHA-256
fe3a3c6948a654d9e58c4fa64544da9b0c7299d4b215ff03c8c5e797607dcda9
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.052146

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holds a sword, with 'level' text below.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,722 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 771

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • posing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • sword (object, 0.80)
  • character pose changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • posing

Animation

  • character pose changes

Animation Summary

  • The character's pose changes slightly between frames while holding a sword, with 'level' text visible below.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • character centered
  • text below

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holding a sword. The character's pose changes slightly between frames. Below the character, the text 'level' appears in a pixelated font. The background is a light gradient. The character's hair is brown, and the shorts are blue. The sword is brown. The text 'level' is black with white outlines. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated character with brown hair and blue shorts holds a sword, with 'level' 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081017161722578208085

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character sword level
  • brown hair blue shorts level
  • character holding sword level
  • pixelated level text sword

Objects

  • sword

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • level

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • blue shorts
  • sword
  • level text
  • pixelated
  • light background
  • character pose
  • text below
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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
20081017161722578208085
Archive entry
20081017161722578208085.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081017161722578208085.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081017161722578208085.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016