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Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background.

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Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background.

Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons, Early…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical layout
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is a pixel art portrait of a stylized character. The head features bright orange hair with red highlights on the right side and a small white square near the top left. Two large blue eyes contain black pupils and light blue reflections. A pink nose sits between the eyes, above a mouth showing gray teeth with a white center. Dark brown or maroon shapes flank both sides of the face. The background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky color transitions typical of early digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dr. Eggman
  • Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hair blue eyes pixel art character
  • pixelated face with pink nose gray teeth
  • blue eye reflection maroon side shapes
  • medium gray background pixel art portrait

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • blue eyes
  • pink nose
  • gray teeth
  • white reflection
  • maroon side shapes
  • medium gray background
  • pixelated art style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/59/5975d9a3a57fee6201942f2e0f39b3da50e2dd772e37247ec0228fb922238962.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
5975d9a3a57fee62
SHA-256
5975d9a3a57fee6201942f2e0f39b3da50e2dd772e37247ec0228fb922238962
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100554

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,886 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,052, response 714

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • exaggerated expression (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character portrait (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • pink
  • gray
  • white
  • maroon

Composition

  • centered face
  • symmetrical layout
  • close-up crop

Dense Caption

The image is a pixel art portrait of a stylized character. The head features bright orange hair with red highlights on the right side and a small white square near the top left. Two large blue eyes contain black pupils and light blue reflections. A pink nose sits between the eyes, above a mouth showing gray teeth with a white center. Dark brown or maroon shapes flank both sides of the face. The background is solid medium gray. Pixelation creates blocky color transitions typical of early digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated character with orange hair, blue eyes, pink nose, and gray teeth against a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): driftface
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • Dr. Eggman
  • Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Mood

  • playful
  • exaggerated expression

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange hair blue eyes pixel art character
  • pixelated face with pink nose gray teeth
  • blue eye reflection maroon side shapes
  • medium gray background pixel art portrait

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky rendering
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • character portrait

Wordwall

  • orange hair
  • blue eyes
  • pink nose
  • gray teeth
  • white reflection
  • maroon side shapes
  • medium gray background
  • pixelated art style
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons (internet-archive-eggman-empire-aim-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
Type
Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons
Title
driftface
Alt
driftface
Archive entry
driftface.GIF
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Rights
copyrighted game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Original: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/driftface.GIF#driftface.GIF Download: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/driftface.GIF#driftface.GIF Page: https://archive.org/details/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons