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A paperclip-shaped character with a face on a yellowed paper background, displaying text that changes across frames.

A paperclip-shaped character with a face on a yellowed paper background, displaying text that changes across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears and disappears
  • head tilt

Animation Summary

The text 'How shall I annoy you today?' appears and disappears across frames, and the character's head tilts slightly to the right in one frame.

Composition

  • central character
  • text on left
  • background paper

Dense Caption

The image shows a static paperclip character with a face on a yellowed paper background. The character has a metallic silver body with black eyes and a small mouth. In the top-left frame, the text 'How shall I annoy you today?' is visible in black pixelated font. In the top-right frame, the text is absent. In the bottom-left frame, the character's head is tilted slightly to the right. The background is a textured, yellowed paper with subtle shadows. The image is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • A paperclip-shaped character with a face on a yellowed paper background, displaying text that changes across frames.

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
  • 200807122118501110597086

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paperclip character yellowed paper text
  • buddy icon text changes
  • silver paperclip head tilt
  • pixelated text yellow paper

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • How shall I annoy you today?

Wordwall

  • paperclip character
  • yellowed paper background
  • black pixelated text
  • metallic silver body
  • black eyes
  • small mouth
  • text changes
  • head tilted right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807122118501110597086
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/228e3fb3ebb2bbe6b395e9013c961fea0a87f812f423871196d65abe8872eba4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
228e3fb3ebb2bbe6
SHA-256
228e3fb3ebb2bbe6b395e9013c961fea0a87f812f423871196d65abe8872eba4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.092014

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920656onnx/unsafe0.092014onnx/nsfw0.053783onnx/nsfl0.038231
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A paperclip-shaped character with a face on a yellowed paper background, displaying text that changes across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,181 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 841

Review tags

  • head tilted right (action, 0.80)
  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • yellowed paper (object, 0.80)
  • head tilt (other, 0.80)
  • text appears and disappears (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • paperclip character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes
  • head tilted right

Animation

  • text appears and disappears
  • head tilt

Animation Summary

The text 'How shall I annoy you today?' appears and disappears across frames, and the character's head tilts slightly to the right in one frame.

Colors

  • silver
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • central character
  • text on left
  • background paper

Dense Caption

The image shows a static paperclip character with a face on a yellowed paper background. The character has a metallic silver body with black eyes and a small mouth. In the top-left frame, the text 'How shall I annoy you today?' is visible in black pixelated font. In the top-right frame, the text is absent. In the bottom-left frame, the character's head is tilted slightly to the right. The background is a textured, yellowed paper with subtle shadows. The image is pixelated with a low-resolution appearance.

Description

  • A paperclip-shaped character with a face on a yellowed paper background, displaying text that changes across frames.

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
  • 200807122118501110597086

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paperclip character yellowed paper text
  • buddy icon text changes
  • silver paperclip head tilt
  • pixelated text yellow paper

Objects

  • yellowed paper

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • paperclip character

Visible Text

  • How shall I annoy you today?

Wordwall

  • paperclip character
  • yellowed paper background
  • black pixelated text
  • metallic silver body
  • black eyes
  • small mouth
  • text changes
  • head tilted right
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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
200807122118501110597086
Archive entry
200807122118501110597086.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807122118501110597086.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807122118501110597086.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016