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A pixelated image with text overlays on a grayscale background showing a figure in motion.

A pixelated image with text overlays on a grayscale background showing a figure in motion. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with text changes between

Animation Summary

  • The image is a static four- with text changes ; no motion animation is present

Composition

  • consistent background

Dense Caption

The image consists of four panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. The top-left panel shows the text "a thousand miles seems pretty far" over a grayscale background featuring a blurred figure in motion, possibly running or jumping. The top-right panel displays the text "but they've got plains & rains & cars" with the same background and figure. The bottom-left panel contains the text "I'd walk to you if I had no other way," maintaining the consistent background and figure. The bottom-right panel is a solid gray color, indicating an empty space or transition. All panels share the same grayscale palette with blue and purple accents in the background.

Description

  • A pixelated image with text overlays on a grayscale background showing a figure in motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071101191412553296513

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text overlays
  • grayscale figure in motion
  • four
  • blue purple background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: The image is a static four-panel grid with text changes across panels; no motion animation is present.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: consistent background across panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: static image with text changes between panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Visible Text

  • a thousand miles seems pretty far
  • but they've got plains & rains & cars
  • I'd walk to you if I had no other way

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • text overlays
  • four
  • blurred motion figure
  • blue/purple background accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071101191412553296513
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0b/0b623ca463644d0e46b0bc790c573502b18069c6e93c405ada18b732fe4564d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
0b623ca463644d0e
SHA-256
0b623ca463644d0e46b0bc790c573502b18069c6e93c405ada18b732fe4564d5
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 01:07 UTC
Run
1236
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000561

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:55 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.567395

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image with text overlays on a grayscale background showing a figure in motion.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 715

Review tags

  • jumping (action, 0.80)
  • running (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • determined (mood, 0.80)
  • romantic (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • static image with text changes between (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure in motion (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • running
  • jumping

Animation

  • static image with text changes between

Animation Summary

  • The image is a static four- with text changes ; no motion animation is present

Colors

  • grayscale
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • consistent background

Dense Caption

The image consists of four panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. The top-left panel shows the text "a thousand miles seems pretty far" over a grayscale background featuring a blurred figure in motion, possibly running or jumping. The top-right panel displays the text "but they've got plains & rains & cars" with the same background and figure. The bottom-left panel contains the text "I'd walk to you if I had no other way," maintaining the consistent background and figure. The bottom-right panel is a solid gray color, indicating an empty space or transition. All panels share the same grayscale palette with blue and purple accents in the background.

Description

  • A pixelated image with text overlays on a grayscale background showing a figure in motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071101191412553296513

Mood

  • determined
  • romantic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • text overlays
  • grayscale figure in motion
  • four
  • blue purple background

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: consistent background across panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined animation: static image with text changes between panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure in motion

Visible Text

  • a thousand miles seems pretty far
  • but they've got plains & rains & cars
  • I'd walk to you if I had no other way

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • text overlays
  • four
  • blurred motion figure
  • blue/purple background accents
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071101191412553296513
Archive entry
20071101191412553296513.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071101191412553296513.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071101191412553296513.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016