A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frames.

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A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frames.

A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frame…

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Animation

  • no visible motion between frames 0 and 1
  • static character pose across sampled frames

Animation Summary

  • Two static frames showing a pixelated character on left and text elements on right with no visible motion between sampled frames.

Composition

  • left-right split frame layout
  • character on left section
  • text on right section
  • contact sheet arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a 512x256 contact sheet containing two sampled animation frames (indices 0 and 1) of an AIM buddy icon. On the left side is a pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series: he has yellow hair, green tunic, blue pants, brown boots, and carries a purple shield on his back with a blue sword in hand. His pose shows him standing slightly angled to the right with a shadow extending behind him on a gray background. On the right side is text rendered in pixelated white font against black: 'Anime IM' at the top and 'COM' below it, both exhibiting dithering artifacts typical of low-resolution animation. The character's frame appears static across sampled frames (no visible motion), while the right-side text remains unchanged between frames. The overall style is retro 8-bit pixel art with limited color palette and blocky rendering. The contact sheet layout shows two distinct sections side-by-side, each representing a single frame of an animated icon sequence.

Description

A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frames.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Anime IM community

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis both | confidence high | evidence character design matches Link's appearance in early Zelda games (yellow hair, green tunic)

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • exact character identity cannot be confirmed as definitive due to low resolution
  • full animation frame count unknown beyond sampled frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • character resembles Link (The Legend of Zelda)
  • text elements match 'Anime IM' and 'COM'
  • pixelated style consistent with 2000s buddy icon design

Named Entities

  • Link

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated Zelda Link buddy icon
  • Anime IM COM text animation
  • 48x48 AIM animated contact sheet frame 0
  • retro pixel art anime IM icon
  • The Legend of Zelda character standing pose

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with two sampled animation frames (indices 0,1)
  • 512x256 review image size
  • 48x48 original icon dimensions
  • gray transparency background for contact sheet display
  • sourceFrameCount: 2
  • sampledFrameCount: 2
  • contactSheetLayout: 2x1

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is brand-related only

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons' and 'Anime IM' branding, with possible connection to AIM/AOL icons from early internet era

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • COM

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda series
  • Anime IM branding

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • yellow hair
  • green tunic
  • blue pants
  • brown boots
  • purple shield
  • blue sword
  • gray background
  • shadow effect
  • white pixelated text
  • Anime IM text
  • COM text
  • dithering artifacts
  • 8-bit style
  • retro animation
  • character standing pose
  • left side character frame
  • right side text frame
  • contact sheet layout
  • 48x48 icon size
  • pixel art rendering
  • limited color palette
  • static character pose
  • black background section
  • gray transparency background
  • text dithering
  • frame 0 and 1 sampled
  • no visible motion between frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

AnimeIM Anime AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Category
buddy icons / legend of zelda / legend of zelda buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Anime Fan Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:10 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/08/087c2848d8a0dffa5ae3670707b02bb6e79a4e4c85ba4171e4a4f4f0c403c60b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 05:10 UTC
Archive ID
087c2848d8a0dffa
SHA-256
087c2848d8a0dffa5ae3670707b02bb6e79a4e4c85ba4171e4a4f4f0c403c60b
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 04:33 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106744

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922231onnx/unsafe0.106744onnx/nsfw0.059647onnx/nsfl0.047097
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 18, 2026 at 15:01 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)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frames.

Reviewed
July 18, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Run
32
Version
v3
Elapsed
23,352 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,004, response 1,360

Review tags

  • gray background (color, 1.00)
  • 48x48 (size, 1.00)
  • static animation (animation, 0.95)
  • zelda (subject, 0.95)
  • white text (text, 0.95)
  • pixel art (style, 0.90)
  • green tunic (subject, 0.90)
  • yellow hair (subject, 0.90)
  • anime im (brand, 0.85)
  • blue sword (object, 0.85)
  • purple shield (object, 0.85)
  • dithering artifacts (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • standing
  • shadow casting

Animation

  • no visible motion between frames 0 and 1
  • static character pose across sampled frames

Animation Summary

  • Two static frames showing a pixelated character on left and text elements on right with no visible motion between sampled frames.

Colors

  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • brown
  • purple
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left-right split frame layout
  • character on left section
  • text on right section
  • contact sheet arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a 512x256 contact sheet containing two sampled animation frames (indices 0 and 1) of an AIM buddy icon. On the left side is a pixelated character resembling Link from The Legend of Zelda series: he has yellow hair, green tunic, blue pants, brown boots, and carries a purple shield on his back with a blue sword in hand. His pose shows him standing slightly angled to the right with a shadow extending behind him on a gray background. On the right side is text rendered in pixelated white font against black: 'Anime IM' at the top and 'COM' below it, both exhibiting dithering artifacts typical of low-resolution animation. The character's frame appears static across sampled frames (no visible motion), while the right-side text remains unchanged between frames. The overall style is retro 8-bit pixel art with limited color palette and blocky rendering. The contact sheet layout shows two distinct sections side-by-side, each representing a single frame of an animated icon sequence.

Description

A pixelated 48x48 animated buddy icon featuring a character from The Legend of Zelda series on the left and text elements on the right, displayed as a contact sheet with two frames.

Fandoms

  • The Legend of Zelda
  • Anime IM community

Identity Hypotheses

  • Link | basis both | confidence high | evidence character design matches Link's appearance in early Zelda games (yellow hair, green tunic)

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • exact character identity cannot be confirmed as definitive due to low resolution
  • full animation frame count unknown beyond sampled frames

Metadata Only Entities

  • Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • character resembles Link (The Legend of Zelda)
  • text elements match 'Anime IM' and 'COM'
  • pixelated style consistent with 2000s buddy icon design

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • Link

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated Zelda Link buddy icon
  • Anime IM COM text animation
  • 48x48 AIM animated contact sheet frame 0
  • retro pixel art anime IM icon
  • The Legend of Zelda character standing pose

Objects

  • purple shield
  • blue sword

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with two sampled animation frames (indices 0,1)
  • 512x256 review image size
  • 48x48 original icon dimensions
  • gray transparency background for contact sheet display
  • sourceFrameCount: 2
  • sampledFrameCount: 2
  • contactSheetLayout: 2x1

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design
  • no nudity or explicit content
  • text is brand-related only

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons' and 'Anime IM' branding, with possible connection to AIM/AOL icons from early internet era

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • retro animation style
  • low-resolution rendering

Subjects

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda)
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • Anime IM
  • COM

Visually Supported Entities

  • The Legend of Zelda series
  • Anime IM branding

Wordwall

  • pixelated character
  • yellow hair
  • green tunic
  • blue pants
  • brown boots
  • purple shield
  • blue sword
  • gray background
  • shadow effect
  • white pixelated text
  • Anime IM text
  • COM text
  • dithering artifacts
  • 8-bit style
  • retro animation
  • character standing pose
  • left side character frame
  • right side text frame
  • contact sheet layout
  • 48x48 icon size
  • pixel art rendering
  • limited color palette
  • static character pose
  • black background section
  • gray transparency background
  • text dithering
  • frame 0 and 1 sampled
  • no visible motion between frames
Raw JSON
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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 / legend of zelda / legend of zelda buddy icons aim icons anime icons aol icons
Title
Legend Of Zelda Buddy Icons - AIM Icons - Anime Icons - AOL Icons
Alt
legend of zelda link 040816 gif
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 05:10 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