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Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background.

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Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background.

Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • balloons on left and right
  • text blocks stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with pink hair and light-colored clothing holds two large balloons against a black background. Left balloon is dark brown with a textured pattern; right balloon is purple with a lighter pattern. Four teal rectangular text blocks display 'Happy', 'New', 'Year', and '2009!' in white pixelated font. The figure's head is slightly tilted, and the balloons are held above shoulder height. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008123108302431010218

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 2009 new year
  • happy new year 2009
  • pixelated new year
  • teal text new year
  • balloons new year
  • 2009 new year text
  • new year 2009
  • happy new year 2009 text

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Happy
  • New
  • Year
  • 2009!

Wordwall

  • pixelated figure
  • pink hair
  • light clothing
  • dark brown balloon
  • purple balloon
  • teal text blocks
  • white font
  • black background
  • 2009
  • New Year
  • Happy
  • 2009!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008123108302431010218
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
2e694d4082f50be9
SHA-256
2e694d4082f50be91bd37ed6565a8d39ad925def8b4656e6e29cf56ac28758ff
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 23:53 UTC
Run
1295
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 843

Review tags

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  • purple
  • teal
  • white

Composition

  • figure centered
  • balloons on left and right
  • text blocks stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Pixelated figure with pink hair and light-colored clothing holds two large balloons against a black background. Left balloon is dark brown with a textured pattern; right balloon is purple with a lighter pattern. Four teal rectangular text blocks display 'Happy', 'New', 'Year', and '2009!' in white pixelated font. The figure's head is slightly tilted, and the balloons are held above shoulder height. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated figure holding two balloons with 'Happy New Year 2009!' text blocks on a black background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008123108302431010218

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • happy new year 2009
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  • balloons new year
  • 2009 new year text
  • new year 2009
  • happy new year 2009 text

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Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • pixelated
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  • Year
  • 2009!

Wordwall

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  • pink hair
  • light clothing
  • dark brown balloon
  • purple balloon
  • teal text blocks
  • white font
  • black background
  • 2009
  • New Year
  • Happy
  • 2009!
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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
2008123108302431010218
Archive entry
2008123108302431010218.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#2008123108302431010218.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008123108302431010218.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016