A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light"

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A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light"

A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light". Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Animation

  • text fragments change sequentially
  • final frame shows five white dots below candle image

Animation Summary

Text fragments change sequentially , starting with "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms, then replacing to "Edison," "We would be," "Watching T.V. by," and finally "candle light." The final frame shows five white dots below the candle image

Composition

  • text overlays on figure
  • sequential text replacement
  • mixed background styles (solid black, blue-toned)
  • vertical alignment of text segments

Dense Caption

The animation consists of six distinct visual states: the first frame displays "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms; the second shows "Edison" in place of "weren't"; the third reads "We would be" replacing earlier text; the fourth presents "Watching T.V. by" on a black background with a large white TV symbol; the fifth features "candle light" over a blue-toned candle image; and the sixth shows five small squares below the candle. The figure appears consistently across frames, depicted in grayscale with arms raised above head level. Text is rendered in bold, blocky lettering with solid black backgrounds for each word or phrase segment. The final frame includes a row of five white dots on a dark blue background beneath the candle image.

Description

A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light"

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

Named Entities

  • Edison

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Edison candle light
  • T.V. by candle light
  • text animation Edison
  • TV symbol candle image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light" across multiple frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text fragments change sequentially across six frames, starting with "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms, then replacing to "Edison," "We would be," "Watching T.V. by," and finally "candle light." The final frame shows five white dots below the candle image.

Visible Text

  • If it weren't for
  • Edison
  • We would be
  • Watching T.V. by
  • candle light

Visually Supported Entities

  • Edison

Wordwall

  • text fragments: If it weren't for
  • text fragments: Edison
  • text fragments: We would be
  • text fragments: Watching T.V. by
  • text fragments: candle light
  • figure with raised arms
  • black-and-white animation
  • TV symbol on black background
  • candle image on blue background
  • five white dots

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803301909211216080704
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1f/1f3686a1c8709c5b8b46d53a5af2f9451231263d7a681d23e452d16e8798a0ef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
1f3686a1c8709c5b
SHA-256
1f3686a1c8709c5b8b46d53a5af2f9451231263d7a681d23e452d16e8798a0ef
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 03:58 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light"

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:44 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,548 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,173, response 837

Review tags

  • arms raised above head level (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • educational (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • candle image (object, 0.80)
  • five white dots (object, 0.80)
  • tv symbol (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated rendering (style, 0.80)
  • figure with raised arms (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • arms raised above head level

Animation

  • text fragments change sequentially
  • final frame shows five white dots below candle image

Animation Summary

Text fragments change sequentially , starting with "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms, then replacing to "Edison," "We would be," "Watching T.V. by," and finally "candle light." The final frame shows five white dots below the candle image

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • text overlays on figure
  • sequential text replacement
  • mixed background styles (solid black, blue-toned)
  • vertical alignment of text segments

Dense Caption

The animation consists of six distinct visual states: the first frame displays "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms; the second shows "Edison" in place of "weren't"; the third reads "We would be" replacing earlier text; the fourth presents "Watching T.V. by" on a black background with a large white TV symbol; the fifth features "candle light" over a blue-toned candle image; and the sixth shows five small squares below the candle. The figure appears consistently across frames, depicted in grayscale with arms raised above head level. Text is rendered in bold, blocky lettering with solid black backgrounds for each word or phrase segment. The final frame includes a row of five white dots on a dark blue background beneath the candle image.

Description

A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light"

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

Mood

  • humorous
  • educational

Named Entities

  • Edison

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Edison candle light
  • T.V. by candle light
  • text animation Edison
  • TV symbol candle image

Objects

  • TV symbol
  • candle image
  • five white dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A black-and-white animated icon shows a figure with raised arms, text fragments reading "If it weren't for Edison We would be watching T.V. by candle light" across multiple frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text fragments change sequentially across six frames, starting with "If it weren't for" over a figure with raised arms, then replacing to "Edison," "We would be," "Watching T.V. by," and finally "candle light." The final frame shows five white dots below the candle image.

Style

  • blocky text
  • grayscale animation
  • pixelated rendering

Subjects

  • figure with raised arms

Visible Text

  • If it weren't for
  • Edison
  • We would be
  • Watching T.V. by
  • candle light

Visually Supported Entities

  • Edison

Wordwall

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  • text fragments: Edison
  • text fragments: We would be
  • text fragments: Watching T.V. by
  • text fragments: candle light
  • figure with raised arms
  • black-and-white animation
  • TV symbol on black background
  • candle image on blue background
  • five white dots
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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
200803301909211216080704
Archive entry
200803301909211216080704.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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