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Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

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Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text blocks shift

Animation Summary

  • Text blocks shift across three to form THE BIRD IS THE WORD

Composition

  • three
  • text blocks
  • duck partially cropped in bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated duck with red beak and black-and-white eye floats on blue water. Three black text blocks with white lettering display THE BIRD IS THE WORD across three panels. Left panel shows THE BIRD, middle panel shows IS THE, bottom panel shows WORD. Duck's body is partially cropped in bottom panel. Background is white with blue water stripe. Animation shows text blocks shifting across panels.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081028172424100174428

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck text blocks
  • THE BIRD IS THE WORD
  • pixelated duck animation
  • text shifting duck
  • humorous duck animation
  • blue water duck
  • cropped duck text
  • duck red beak

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Text blocks shift across three panels to form THE BIRD IS THE WORD.
  • quarantined composition: duck partially cropped in bottom panel
  • quarantined composition: text blocks across panels
  • quarantined composition: three-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: text blocks shift across panels

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS THE
  • WORD

Wordwall

  • yellow duck
  • red beak
  • black-and-white eye
  • blue water
  • THE BIRD
  • IS THE
  • WORD
  • text blocks
  • pixelated
  • floating
  • cropped body
  • text shifting

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081028172424100174428
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/10/105d70d533a24974486e7a25c41b1cbf3cb175e5ea5feb79fdf59d58db38a004.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
105d70d533a24974
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:00 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071371

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,905 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 709

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • text blocks (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • duck (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • floating
  • text shifting

Animation

  • text blocks shift

Animation Summary

  • Text blocks shift across three to form THE BIRD IS THE WORD

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • three
  • text blocks
  • duck partially cropped in bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated duck with red beak and black-and-white eye floats on blue water. Three black text blocks with white lettering display THE BIRD IS THE WORD across three panels. Left panel shows THE BIRD, middle panel shows IS THE, bottom panel shows WORD. Duck's body is partially cropped in bottom panel. Background is white with blue water stripe. Animation shows text blocks shifting across panels.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow duck with red beak and black-and-white eye, floating on blue water, with text blocks reading THE BIRD IS THE WORD.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081028172424100174428

Mood

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Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • THE BIRD IS THE WORD
  • pixelated duck animation
  • text shifting duck
  • humorous duck animation
  • blue water duck
  • cropped duck text
  • duck red beak

Objects

  • text blocks
  • water

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: duck partially cropped in bottom panel
  • quarantined composition: text blocks across panels
  • quarantined composition: three-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: text blocks shift across panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • duck

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS THE
  • WORD

Wordwall

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  • red beak
  • black-and-white eye
  • blue water
  • THE BIRD
  • IS THE
  • WORD
  • text blocks
  • pixelated
  • floating
  • cropped body
  • text shifting
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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
20081028172424100174428
Archive entry
20081028172424100174428.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081028172424100174428.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081028172424100174428.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016