A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on black background on the right.

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A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on black background on the right.

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on…

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Animation

  • character expression change between frames
  • subtle hair movement visible in left frame

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing subtle character movement on left and static text display on right; character expression/hair changes between frames suggest simple motion effect.

Composition

  • vertical split layout
  • left frame close-up
  • right frame text-only

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet displaying two sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. On the left frame (48x256 pixels), there's a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair, green eyes, and purple clothing visible at the bottom edge; the character appears to be in motion or expression change between frames. The right frame shows white pixelated text "Anime IM" on a black background above smaller stylized text "c0m" also in white pixelated font. Both frames have gray transparency backgrounds typical of AIM buddy icons, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing artifacts common in low-resolution GIFs from the early 2000s. The character's hair has subtle shading variations between frames suggesting animation movement. Text elements use a retro digital font style consistent with early internet aesthetics. The overall composition is split vertically with visual content on left and text/logo on right, typical of AIM buddy icon design conventions where space was limited to 48x48 pixels per frame but contact sheets showed more detail for review purposes.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on black background on the right.

Fandoms

  • anime fandom
  • AIM user community

Identity Hypotheses

  • FLCL character | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence anime-style character with possible FLCL reference in source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • F L C L (Fooly Cooly) character identity
  • flcl reference in text

Metadata Only Entities

  • FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
  • F L C L
  • Fooly Cooly

Metadata Supported By Image

  • anime style
  • buddy icon format
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • text logo

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime im buddy icon
  • flcl aim icon
  • 48x48 pixel anime character
  • retro digital text logo

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 2x1 layout (2 frames), sampledFrameCount=2, sourceFrameCount=2, reviewImagePixels=512x256, gray transparency background for all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit anime art, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons | title: F L C L (Fooly Cooly) Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons | alt: flcl 48 gif | category: buddy icons / f l c l fooly cooly / f l c l fooly cooly buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons

Subjects

  • anime character

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM service
  • AIM buddy icon design

Wordwall

  • anime character
  • light brown hair
  • green eyes
  • purple clothing
  • pixelated text
  • Anime IM
  • c0m
  • gray transparency background
  • dithering artifacts
  • anti-aliasing edges
  • retro digital font
  • vertical split composition
  • 48x256 pixels
  • low-resolution GIF
  • character expression change
  • text logo
  • black background
  • visible motion blur
  • stylized c0m
  • anime-style eyes

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
F L C L (Fooly Cooly) Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Category
buddy icons / f l c l fooly cooly / f l c l fooly cooly buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/f1/f1d00455997611fc6242deb8215c2abaac133654215aeeb0590c1d3513e81454.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Archive ID
f1d00455997611fc
SHA-256
f1d00455997611fc6242deb8215c2abaac133654215aeeb0590c1d3513e81454
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:33 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078569

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924641onnx/unsafe0.078569onnx/nsfw0.044930onnx/nsfl0.033639
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Assessed
July 18, 2026 at 12:22 UTC
Run
32
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
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A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on black background on the right.

Reviewed
July 18, 2026 at 12:22 UTC
Run
32
Version
v3
Elapsed
31,564 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,003, response 1,257

Review tags

  • gray transparency background (background, 0.95)
  • low resolution pixel art (style, 0.95)
  • anime character (subject, 0.95)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.90)
  • anime style eyes (subject feature, 0.90)
  • pixelated text (text, 0.90)
  • vertical split composition (composition, 0.85)
  • character expression change (animation, 0.75)

Actions

  • character movement
  • text display

Animation

  • character expression change between frames
  • subtle hair movement visible in left frame

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing subtle character movement on left and static text display on right; character expression/hair changes between frames suggest simple motion effect.

Colors

  • light brown
  • green
  • purple
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical split layout
  • left frame close-up
  • right frame text-only

Dense Caption

The image is a contact sheet displaying two sampled frames from an animated AIM buddy icon. On the left frame (48x256 pixels), there's a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair, green eyes, and purple clothing visible at the bottom edge; the character appears to be in motion or expression change between frames. The right frame shows white pixelated text "Anime IM" on a black background above smaller stylized text "c0m" also in white pixelated font. Both frames have gray transparency backgrounds typical of AIM buddy icons, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing artifacts common in low-resolution GIFs from the early 2000s. The character's hair has subtle shading variations between frames suggesting animation movement. Text elements use a retro digital font style consistent with early internet aesthetics. The overall composition is split vertically with visual content on left and text/logo on right, typical of AIM buddy icon design conventions where space was limited to 48x48 pixels per frame but contact sheets showed more detail for review purposes.

Description

A 48x48 pixel buddy icon featuring a close-up of an anime-style character with light brown hair and green eyes on the left, paired with "Anime IM" text in white pixelated font on black background on the right.

Fandoms

  • anime fandom
  • AIM user community

Identity Hypotheses

  • FLCL character | basis metadata-compatible | confidence low | evidence anime-style character with possible FLCL reference in source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • F L C L (Fooly Cooly) character identity
  • flcl reference in text

Metadata Only Entities

  • FLCL (Fooly Cooly)
  • F L C L
  • Fooly Cooly

Metadata Supported By Image

  • anime style
  • buddy icon format
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • text logo

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • digital retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anime im buddy icon
  • flcl aim icon
  • 48x48 pixel anime character
  • retro digital text logo

Objects

  • pixelated text
  • gray transparency background

Preprocessing Notes

contact sheet with 2x1 layout (2 frames), sampledFrameCount=2, sourceFrameCount=2, reviewImagePixels=512x256, gray transparency background for all frames

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit anime art, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

source: animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons | title: F L C L (Fooly Cooly) Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons | alt: flcl 48 gif | category: buddy icons / f l c l fooly cooly / f l c l fooly cooly buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons

Style

  • anime style
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution pixel art

Subjects

  • anime character
  • text logo

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • c0m

Visually Supported Entities

  • Anime IM service
  • AIM buddy icon design

Wordwall

  • anime character
  • light brown hair
  • green eyes
  • purple clothing
  • pixelated text
  • Anime IM
  • c0m
  • gray transparency background
  • dithering artifacts
  • anti-aliasing edges
  • retro digital font
  • vertical split composition
  • 48x256 pixels
  • low-resolution GIF
  • character expression change
  • text logo
  • black background
  • visible motion blur
  • stylized c0m
  • anime-style eyes
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Full source records (1)

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons (animeim-anime-aim-buddy-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Type
live categorized AIM icon portal
Category
buddy icons / f l c l fooly cooly / f l c l fooly cooly buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Title
F L C L (Fooly Cooly) Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Alt
flcl 48 gif
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 04:45 UTC
Rights
fan-curated anime character imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large alphabetized anime fan portal with series-level category labels, useful for a genre-specific AIM-era cross-section