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Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background.

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Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background.

Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons, Early-to-Mid-2000s In…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • arm positions change across frames: left arm raised, right arm bent; arms extended in star shape; both arms bent at sides

Animation Summary

  • Character's arms change position across frames: left arm raised, right arm bent; arms extended in star shape; both arms bent at sides.

Composition

  • three
  • four (top two )
  • two (bottom )

Dense Caption

Yellow pixel art character with black outline, smiling expression (two dots for eyes, horizontal line mouth), body shape varies across frames: top row shows head and arms from left to right; middle row shows star-shaped body with arms extended or bent; bottom row shows rounded body. All frames on solid gray background.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): runman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
  • provenance cultural-slice: indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: indie-games
  • provenance topic-coverage: indie games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel character smiling
  • gray background 8-bit animation
  • star-shaped body yellow smile
  • pixel art happy character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns (bottom row)
  • quarantined composition: four columns (top two rows)
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow smiling character

Wordwall

  • yellow pixel character
  • smiling face
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • star shape
  • rounded shape
  • arms extended
  • arms bent

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/6540c3112d12d8934b8d489f9bfdd76e4a236769604ee0d72da458742cb31ccc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
6540c3112d12d893
SHA-256
6540c3112d12d8934b8d489f9bfdd76e4a236769604ee0d72da458742cb31ccc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082274

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,655 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 698

Review tags

  • arm movement (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow smiling character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • arm movement

Animation

  • arm positions change across frames: left arm raised, right arm bent; arms extended in star shape; both arms bent at sides

Animation Summary

  • Character's arms change position across frames: left arm raised, right arm bent; arms extended in star shape; both arms bent at sides.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • four (top two )
  • two (bottom )

Dense Caption

Yellow pixel art character with black outline, smiling expression (two dots for eyes, horizontal line mouth), body shape varies across frames: top row shows head and arms from left to right; middle row shows star-shaped body with arms extended or bent; bottom row shows rounded body. All frames on solid gray background.

Description

  • Yellow pixelated character with smiling face in various poses on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): runman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): ricon1
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2009
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
  • provenance cultural-slice: indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture
  • provenance collection-attribute: indie-games
  • provenance topic-coverage: indie games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow pixel character smiling
  • gray background 8-bit animation
  • star-shaped body yellow smile
  • pixel art happy character

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two columns (bottom row)
  • quarantined composition: four columns (top two rows)
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • yellow smiling character

Visually Supported Entities

  • yellow smiling character

Wordwall

  • yellow pixel character
  • smiling face
  • black outline
  • gray background
  • star shape
  • rounded shape
  • arms extended
  • arms bent
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive RunMan Buddy Icons (internet-archive-runman-buddy-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Indie Game Culture
Type
Internet Archive item explicitly titled Winamp Skin and Buddy Icons
Title
ricon1
Alt
ricon1
Archive entry
ricon1.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Rights
creator-owned game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
indie-game character buddy icons adjacent to Winamp skin culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/runmanwandn/ricon1.gif#ricon1.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/runmanwandn/ricon1.gif#ricon1.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/runmanwandn