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nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops

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nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops

nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops. Animated 47×47 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-I…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • hair color changes from black to white across frames
  • mouth opens in rightmost bottom frame

Animation Summary

  • Hair color changes from black to white across frames; mouth opens in rightmost bottom frame.

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • varied background colors

Dense Caption

Nine distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: three figures against dark background; middle row: same figure with white halo-like effect on left, central figure has larger halo, right figure lacks halo; bottom row: left figure has black hair and green background, center figure has white hair and green background, right figure has white hair and open mouth expression. All portraits show a person in dark clothing with visible collar.

Description

  • nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • l
  • aim-icons
  • non-square icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character
  • white halos green backdrop
  • black hair white hair portraits
  • open mouth pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated character grid

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portraits
  • dark backgrounds
  • white halos
  • green backdrop
  • black hair
  • white hair
  • open mouth
  • collared clothing

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / l
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:44 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / l
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
47×47 pixels
File size
6.5 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/ed/ed6f20fb34f920d42b65f21625c78e13c20631ec5944a6584d112721fa07c408.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 22:44 UTC
Archive ID
ed6f20fb34f920d4
SHA-256
ed6f20fb34f920d42b65f21625c78e13c20631ec5944a6584d112721fa07c408
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114705

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914914onnx/unsafe0.114705onnx/nsfw0.066577onnx/nsfl0.048128
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 06:13 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,100, response 691

Review tags

  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised open mouth (mood, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • open mouth

Animation

  • hair color changes from black to white across frames
  • mouth opens in rightmost bottom frame

Animation Summary

  • Hair color changes from black to white across frames; mouth opens in rightmost bottom frame.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • light blue
  • green

Composition

  • centered subjects
  • varied background colors

Dense Caption

Nine distinct pixelated character portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: three figures against dark background; middle row: same figure with white halo-like effect on left, central figure has larger halo, right figure lacks halo; bottom row: left figure has black hair and green background, center figure has white hair and green background, right figure has white hair and open mouth expression. All portraits show a person in dark clothing with visible collar.

Description

  • nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures
  • provenance topic-coverage: AIM buddy icons
  • provenance cultural-slice: AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: gif
  • provenance era: Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: non-square icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons-us
  • l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
  • buddyicons
  • l
  • aim-icons
  • non-square icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • surprised (open mouth)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated character
  • white halos green backdrop
  • black hair white hair portraits
  • open mouth pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of nine pixelated character portraits with varying backgrounds and expressions, including dark, light, and green backdrops.
  • quarantined wordwall: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated character grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon style

Subjects

  • person

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • pixelated portraits
  • dark backgrounds
  • white halos
  • green backdrop
  • black hair
  • white hair
  • open mouth
  • collared clothing
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:07 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / l
Alt
l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:44 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117014210id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY.gif 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / l
Alt
l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20051117014210id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/l/l2d9f19a719-IMBUDDY.gif