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Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape.

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Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape.

Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape. Animated 48×64 GIF AIM…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four characters arranged vertically on black background

Dense Caption

Top-left character is an orange octopus-like creature with two large circular eyes containing white pupils and black dots, a wide mouth showing sharp teeth, and long flowing tentacles. Top-right character is a blue-and-red crab with segmented body, multiple limbs including claws, and abstract facial features. Bottom-left character is a stick figure with glowing light-blue eyes, thin gray torso, blue limbs, and raised hands holding small objects. Bottom-right character is a gray bird-like creature wearing red cape or cloak, white legs, brown shoes, and has one visible eye on its head.

Description

Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • 2014
  • AIM buddy icons
  • fan art
  • forum-avatars
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • octopus crab stick figure bird pixel art
  • orange blue red gray pixel characters
  • glowing eyes sharp teeth cape
  • black background four character set

Subjects

  • stick figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • video games icons
  • pixelart
  • forum avatars

Wordwall

  • orange octopus
  • blue-red crab
  • glowing-eyed stick figure
  • gray bird in red cape
  • black background
  • pixel art style
  • four characters
  • white pupils
  • sharp teeth
  • segmented body

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Added to archive
July 8, 2026

PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section

Source title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 18:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×64 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Archive ID
4bd1e4630c7109ae
SHA-256
4bd1e4630c7109aece7ee90ac92409c67d0c9cdc95e7ed604711f138e5e77080
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 04:58 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,949 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,068, response 642

Review tags

  • glowing eyes (action, 0.80)
  • raised hands (action, 0.80)
  • wearing cape (action, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red shoes (object, 0.80)
  • small objects in hands (object, 0.80)
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  • bird like creature (subject, 0.80)
  • crab (subject, 0.80)
  • octopus like creature (subject, 0.80)
  • stick figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised hands
  • glowing eyes
  • wearing cape

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • red
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four characters arranged vertically on black background

Dense Caption

Top-left character is an orange octopus-like creature with two large circular eyes containing white pupils and black dots, a wide mouth showing sharp teeth, and long flowing tentacles. Top-right character is a blue-and-red crab with segmented body, multiple limbs including claws, and abstract facial features. Bottom-left character is a stick figure with glowing light-blue eyes, thin gray torso, blue limbs, and raised hands holding small objects. Bottom-right character is a gray bird-like creature wearing red cape or cloak, white legs, brown shoes, and has one visible eye on its head.

Description

Four pixel-art characters on black backgrounds: orange octopus-like creature, blue-and-red crab, stick figure with glowing eyes, and gray bird in red cape.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2012
  • provenance source-name: PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim-buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: fan art

Metadata Only Entities

  • messenger-icons
  • 2014
  • AIM buddy icons
  • fan art
  • forum-avatars
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • octopus crab stick figure bird pixel art
  • orange blue red gray pixel characters
  • glowing eyes sharp teeth cape
  • black background four character set

Objects

  • small objects in hands
  • red shoes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • octopus-like creature
  • crab
  • stick figure
  • bird-like creature

Visually Supported Entities

  • video games icons
  • pixelart
  • forum avatars

Wordwall

  • orange octopus
  • blue-red crab
  • glowing-eyed stick figure
  • gray bird in red cape
  • black background
  • pixel art style
  • four characters
  • white pupils
  • sharp teeth
  • segmented body
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 22:51 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 (1)
PixelJoint Video Game AIM/Messenger Icons Cross-Section (pixeljoint-video-game-aim-icons-cross-section)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Late-2000s Pixel Art / Forum Avatar Gallery
Type
live pixel-art gallery cross-section
Category
pixelart / 2014 / video games / video games icons pixel art buddy icons forum avatars
Title
Video Games Icons _ Pixel Art, Buddy Icons, Forum Avatars
Alt
Mother Enemies icon/pixelart
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 18:39 UTC
Rights
mixed creator and fan material; research/reference only by default
Slice
video-game pixel-art icons overlapping AIM buddy icons, messenger icons, and forum avatars
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