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Animated icon with four showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space

Animated icon with four showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • top-left character
  • top-right cookie
  • bottom-left character
  • bottom-right blank

Dense Caption

The icon is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: white cartoon character with black lines for hair and facial features, light blue background, orange text "Come to the dark side...". Top-right panel: large chocolate chip cookie on black background, white text "...and we have COOKIES!". Bottom-left panel: blue character with large white eyes and black mouth, pink text "I'm in!". Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Animated icon with four showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090102193209702346958

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cookie text "COOKIES!" blue character text "I'm in!" white character text "Come to the dark side..."

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Animated icon with four panels showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Come to the dark side...
  • ...and we have COOKIES!
  • I'm in!

Wordwall

  • white cartoon character
  • chocolate chip cookie
  • blue character
  • orange text
  • pink text
  • gray background
  • four
  • light blue background
  • black background
  • white text
  • text "Come to the dark side..."
  • text "...and we have COOKIES!"
  • text "I'm in!"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090102193209702346958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/12/12528f1fa6cdcc63db1f32bd9fadea307a5487c83d2471f012a886eeb34be26b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
12528f1fa6cdcc63
SHA-256
12528f1fa6cdcc63db1f32bd9fadea307a5487c83d2471f012a886eeb34be26b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084271

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon with four showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,130 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 807

Review tags

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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • blue character (subject, 0.80)
  • chocolate chip cookie (subject, 0.80)
  • white cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • orange
  • light blue
  • black
  • brown
  • gray
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • four
  • top-left character
  • top-right cookie
  • bottom-left character
  • bottom-right blank

Dense Caption

The icon is a four-panel grid. Top-left panel: white cartoon character with black lines for hair and facial features, light blue background, orange text "Come to the dark side...". Top-right panel: large chocolate chip cookie on black background, white text "...and we have COOKIES!". Bottom-left panel: blue character with large white eyes and black mouth, pink text "I'm in!". Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels are static; no animation changes observed.

Description

  • Animated icon with four showing a white cartoon character, a chocolate chip cookie, a blue character, and a blank space

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090102193209702346958

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cookie text "COOKIES!" blue character text "I'm in!" white character text "Come to the dark side..."

Objects

  • chocolate chip cookie

Preprocessing Notes

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  • pixelated
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  • blue character

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  • ...and we have COOKIES!
  • I'm in!

Wordwall

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  • chocolate chip cookie
  • blue character
  • orange text
  • pink text
  • gray background
  • four
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  • black background
  • white text
  • text "Come to the dark side..."
  • text "...and we have COOKIES!"
  • text "I'm in!"
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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
20090102193209702346958
Archive entry
20090102193209702346958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#20090102193209702346958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090102193209702346958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016