A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state.

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A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state.

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state. Animate…

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Animation

  • left eye closes from open to wink between frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a red cartoon character transitioning from open eye to winked eye state, with visible pixelated rendering and transparent background.

Composition

  • square frame
  • centered character
  • two-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a contact sheet of two adjacent animation frames for a small animated buddy icon. The character is primarily bright red with blue accents on its lower body and ear-like protrusions. It has large white eyes with dark pupils, one of which (left eye) transitions from fully open in the left frame to partially closed/winking in the right frame. The character's mouth is slightly downturned in both frames. The icon uses pixelated rendering typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing on edges. The background is transparent (indicated by gray checkerboard), allowing it to be placed over various chat backgrounds. Each frame measures exactly 50x50 pixels, consistent with classic AIM buddy icon dimensions. The animation consists of two distinct states: open eye followed by winked eye, suggesting a simple blinking motion. The character's shape is rounded and cartoonish, resembling a stylized animal or fantasy creature from the Neopets universe as suggested by source hints but not confirmed by visible evidence alone.

Description

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state.

Fandoms

  • Neopets | basis metadata-compatible

Identity Hypotheses

Acara | basis both | medium confidence | red cartoon character with blue accents and winking motion matches Neopets' Acara aesthetic as described in source hints.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Neopets character identity
  • specific name 'acara'
  • brand logo or text elements

Metadata Only Entities

  • Neopets
  • acara

Metadata Supported By Image

  • red color scheme
  • animated wink motion
  • small buddy icon size

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red winking cartoon buddy icon
  • pixelated acara animation
  • neopets-inspired wink icon
  • aim animated red eye blink
  • 50x50 pixel buddy icon wink
  • cartoon character blinking motion

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with two sampled frames (indices 0 and 1)
  • 512x256 review image size
  • gray transparency background visible as checkerboard
  • source frame count: 2, sampled frame count: 2

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design; no nudity or explicit content present

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Neopets' character named 'acara_blink', but this is not visually confirmed by the icon itself; tags include 'aim icon animated red acara winking' which aligns with visible animation and color features.

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character design
  • winking animation
  • pixel art style

Wordwall

  • red cartoon character
  • blue accents
  • white eyes
  • dark pupils
  • left eye open
  • left eye winking
  • slightly downturned mouth
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering edges
  • anti-aliasing
  • transparent background
  • 50x50 pixels
  • two-frame animation
  • winking motion
  • rounded shape
  • cartoonish style
  • Neopets-inspired design
  • blue ear-like protrusions
  • gray checkerboard transparency
  • small icon size

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Somnolescent Neopets AIM Buddy Icons

Source title
Neopets Buddy Icons (A-E) | The Somnolescent Archives
Category
hoards / neopets aim icons / a e / neopets buddy icons a e the somnolescent archives
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 19:49 UTC

Dr. Sloth Neopets AIM Icons

Source title
acara_blink.gif | Neopets Image Emporium
Category
drsloth / AIM Icons
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 05:57 UTC

Prospect live gallery www.drsloth.com

Source title
Search Results | Neopets Image Emporium
Category
search / search results neopets image emporium
Observed
July 20, 2026 at 04:22 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f564c2bc59edd0ecc5efc42b4bba3cb92f3c172a096505b5b6e5f077343d36c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
7f564c2bc59edd0e
SHA-256
7f564c2bc59edd0ecc5efc42b4bba3cb92f3c172a096505b5b6e5f077343d36c
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:43 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077147

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.931823onnx/unsafe0.077147onnx/nsfw0.044414onnx/nsfl0.032733
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Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
2
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 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 21:33 UTC
Run
2
Version
v3
Elapsed
6,806 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,038, response 1,312

Review tags

  • winking (action, 1.00)
  • two frame animation (animation, 1.00)
  • blue accents (color, 1.00)
  • transparent background (composition, 1.00)
  • downturned mouth (expression, 1.00)
  • 50x50 pixels (size, 1.00)
  • cartoonish style (style, 1.00)
  • pixelated animation (style, 1.00)
  • dark pupils (subject, 1.00)
  • red cartoon character (subject, 1.00)
  • white eyes (subject, 1.00)
  • early 2000s digital art (style, 0.95)

Actions

  • winking
  • eye closure

Animation

  • left eye closes from open to wink between frames

Animation Summary

Two-frame animation showing a red cartoon character transitioning from open eye to winked eye state, with visible pixelated rendering and transparent background.

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • square frame
  • centered character
  • two-frame contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a contact sheet of two adjacent animation frames for a small animated buddy icon. The character is primarily bright red with blue accents on its lower body and ear-like protrusions. It has large white eyes with dark pupils, one of which (left eye) transitions from fully open in the left frame to partially closed/winking in the right frame. The character's mouth is slightly downturned in both frames. The icon uses pixelated rendering typical of early 2000s digital art, with visible dithering and anti-aliasing on edges. The background is transparent (indicated by gray checkerboard), allowing it to be placed over various chat backgrounds. Each frame measures exactly 50x50 pixels, consistent with classic AIM buddy icon dimensions. The animation consists of two distinct states: open eye followed by winked eye, suggesting a simple blinking motion. The character's shape is rounded and cartoonish, resembling a stylized animal or fantasy creature from the Neopets universe as suggested by source hints but not confirmed by visible evidence alone.

Description

A 50x50 pixel animated buddy icon featuring a red cartoon character with blue accents, shown in two sequential frames where the left eye closes from open to winking state.

Fandoms

  • Neopets | basis metadata-compatible

Identity Hypotheses

Acara | basis both | medium confidence | red cartoon character with blue accents and winking motion matches Neopets' Acara aesthetic as described in source hints.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • Neopets character identity
  • specific name 'acara'
  • brand logo or text elements

Metadata Only Entities

  • Neopets
  • acara

Metadata Supported By Image

  • red color scheme
  • animated wink motion
  • small buddy icon size

Mood

  • playful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red winking cartoon buddy icon
  • pixelated acara animation
  • neopets-inspired wink icon
  • aim animated red eye blink
  • 50x50 pixel buddy icon wink
  • cartoon character blinking motion

Objects

  • blue accents
  • white eyes
  • dark pupils
  • slightly downturned mouth

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet with two sampled frames (indices 0 and 1)
  • 512x256 review image size
  • gray transparency background visible as checkerboard
  • source frame count: 2, sampled frame count: 2

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character design; no nudity or explicit content present

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest 'Neopets' character named 'acara_blink', but this is not visually confirmed by the icon itself; tags include 'aim icon animated red acara winking' which aligns with visible animation and color features.

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • early 2000s digital art

Subjects

  • red cartoon character

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character design
  • winking animation
  • pixel art style

Wordwall

  • red cartoon character
  • blue accents
  • white eyes
  • dark pupils
  • left eye open
  • left eye winking
  • slightly downturned mouth
  • pixelated rendering
  • dithering edges
  • anti-aliasing
  • transparent background
  • 50x50 pixels
  • two-frame animation
  • winking motion
  • rounded shape
  • cartoonish style
  • Neopets-inspired design
  • blue ear-like protrusions
  • gray checkerboard transparency
  • small icon size
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Full source records (4)

Somnolescent Neopets AIM Buddy Icons (somnolescent-neopets)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
Type
curated static archive
Category
hoards / neopets aim icons / a e / neopets buddy icons a e the somnolescent archives
Title
Neopets Buddy Icons (A-E) | The Somnolescent Archives
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Rights
download-friendly archive, still verify before product redistribution
Slice
official virtual-pet/game-community promotional icons

Dr. Sloth Neopets AIM Icons (drsloth-neopets-aim-icons)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Official Web Promo
Type
tagged image database category
Category
drsloth / AIM Icons
Title
acara_blink.gif | Neopets Image Emporium
Alt
acara_blink | AIM Icons | tags aim icon animated red acara winking
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Rights
licensed Neopets assets indexed by a fan database; research/reference only by default
Slice
tagged Neopets AIM icon database with official asset URLs, dimensions, category, and free-form subject tags

Internet Archive Neopets AIM Icons (internet-archive-neopets-meteor-aim-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Virtual Pet Fandom
Type
Internet Archive item with hundreds of original AIM image members
Title
acara_blink
Alt
acara_blink
Archive entry
acara_blink.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Rights
copyrighted game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
broad Neopets species, character, item, and site-culture AIM icons

Prospect live gallery www.drsloth.com (horizon-live-www-drsloth-com-6cb836760bed)

Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
search / search results neopets image emporium
Title
Search Results | Neopets Image Emporium
Alt
https://images.neopets.com/images/buddy/acara_blink.gif
Observed
July 20, 2026 at 04:22 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.