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A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds.

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A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds.

A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen quadrants
  • central focus on objects
  • dark backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: two white hands hold a brown spherical object with visible texture; background is dark gray. Bottom-left quadrant: a flowing red satin ribbon curves across the bottom left corner on a solid black background. Top-right quadrant: a stylized flower with pink and light blue petals, green stem, and small yellow center; text "breaking news" appears below it in white sans-serif font. Bottom-right quadrant: a white chess queen piece stands on a checkered surface with visible reflections; red pawn is partially visible behind the queen.

Description

  • A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090307185532774372180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chess queen red ribbon flower
  • breaking news chess pieces
  • brown sphere white hands
  • red satin ribbon checkered surface

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image contains four distinct visual elements arranged in a 2x2 grid; no motion observed within the provided frames.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Subjects

  • sphere
  • flower

Visible Text

  • breaking news

Visually Supported Entities

  • chess pieces
  • flower

Wordwall

  • two hands
  • brown sphere
  • red satin ribbon
  • pink blue flower
  • green stem
  • breaking news text
  • white chess queen
  • checkered surface

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090307185532774372180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26fd8eb1a69bd8011cc39cdc304aff314952bbaf6c71f2bc416b3c73aa66c89d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
26fd8eb1a69bd801
SHA-256
26fd8eb1a69bd8011cc39cdc304aff314952bbaf6c71f2bc416b3c73aa66c89d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 12:30 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.186450

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:24 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105227

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A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,271 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 785

Review tags

  • flowing (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • brown sphere (object, 0.80)
  • green stem (object, 0.80)
  • pink blue flower (object, 0.80)
  • red satin ribbon (object, 0.80)
  • chess pieces (subject, 0.80)
  • flower (subject, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)
  • ribbon (subject, 0.80)
  • sphere (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • flowing
  • standing

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • red
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • split-screen quadrants
  • central focus on objects
  • dark backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: two white hands hold a brown spherical object with visible texture; background is dark gray. Bottom-left quadrant: a flowing red satin ribbon curves across the bottom left corner on a solid black background. Top-right quadrant: a stylized flower with pink and light blue petals, green stem, and small yellow center; text "breaking news" appears below it in white sans-serif font. Bottom-right quadrant: a white chess queen piece stands on a checkered surface with visible reflections; red pawn is partially visible behind the queen.

Description

  • A split-screen animation shows a hand holding a brown sphere, red ribbon, and chess pieces against black backgrounds.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090307185532774372180

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chess queen red ribbon flower
  • breaking news chess pieces
  • brown sphere white hands
  • red satin ribbon checkered surface

Objects

  • brown sphere
  • red satin ribbon
  • pink blue flower
  • green stem
  • white chess queen
  • checkered surface
  • red pawn

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image contains four distinct visual elements arranged in a 2x2 grid; no motion observed within the provided frames.

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • hands
  • sphere
  • ribbon
  • flower
  • chess pieces

Visible Text

  • breaking news

Visually Supported Entities

  • chess pieces
  • flower

Wordwall

  • two hands
  • brown sphere
  • red satin ribbon
  • pink blue flower
  • green stem
  • breaking news text
  • white chess queen
  • checkered surface
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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
20090307185532774372180
Archive entry
20090307185532774372180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090307185532774372180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090307185532774372180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016