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Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head.

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Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head.

Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six distinct sections

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head. Next to it, a black-and-white penguin with orange beak and feet has text "I'm" above its head. To the right, three small blue birds sit on a wire with text "Rusti" below them. Below the birds, a yellow chick with closed eyes and green text "A_A" on its face appears. In the bottom-left, a dark curved shape on brown ground with green text "=)" is visible. In the bottom-middle, a gray cat stands on hind legs with green text ":(" above its head.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812052253411283350971
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue penguin text Hi
  • black-and-white penguin text I'm
  • three blue birds text Rusti
  • yellow chick text A_A
  • brown ground text =)
  • gray cat text :(
  • pixelated cartoon penguin
  • green text icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • Hi!
  • I'm
  • Rusti
  • A_A
  • =)
  • :(

Wordwall

  • blue penguin
  • white belly
  • text Hi!
  • black-and-white penguin
  • orange beak
  • text I'm
  • three blue birds
  • text Rusti
  • yellow chick
  • text A_A
  • brown ground
  • text =)
  • gray cat
  • text :(
  • green text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812052253411283350971
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/21/21b175715eb864822207b14d749684175afb2e7950856434bfcd1250a6e9db23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
21b175715eb86482
SHA-256
21b175715eb864822207b14d749684175afb2e7950856434bfcd1250a6e9db23
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 03:29 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016185

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:19 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.179868

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,266 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 811

Review tags

  • sits (action, 0.80)
  • stands (action, 0.80)
  • stands on hind legs (action, 0.80)
  • ground (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • birds (subject, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • chick (subject, 0.80)
  • penguin (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stands
  • sits
  • stands on hind legs

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • orange
  • yellow
  • gray
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • six distinct sections

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head. Next to it, a black-and-white penguin with orange beak and feet has text "I'm" above its head. To the right, three small blue birds sit on a wire with text "Rusti" below them. Below the birds, a yellow chick with closed eyes and green text "A_A" on its face appears. In the bottom-left, a dark curved shape on brown ground with green text "=)" is visible. In the bottom-middle, a gray cat stands on hind legs with green text ":(" above its head.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon penguin with blue body and white belly stands on white background, text "Hi!" above head.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812052253411283350971
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy
  • neutral
  • sad

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue penguin text Hi
  • black-and-white penguin text I'm
  • three blue birds text Rusti
  • yellow chick text A_A
  • brown ground text =)
  • gray cat text :(
  • pixelated cartoon penguin
  • green text icons

Objects

  • wire
  • ground
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • penguin
  • birds
  • chick
  • cat

Visible Text

  • Hi!
  • I'm
  • Rusti
  • A_A
  • =)
  • :(

Wordwall

  • blue penguin
  • white belly
  • text Hi!
  • black-and-white penguin
  • orange beak
  • text I'm
  • three blue birds
  • text Rusti
  • yellow chick
  • text A_A
  • brown ground
  • text =)
  • gray cat
  • text :(
  • green text
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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
200812052253411283350971
Archive entry
200812052253411283350971.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812052253411283350971.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812052253411283350971.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016