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A four- shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing

A four- shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Each panel shows a person with light brown hair styled in a side part, wearing a dark top with a yellow horizontal stripe. The person is smiling broadly in all panels. Top-left panel has red text 'PALIN' with black outline. Top-right panel has blue text '2012' with black outline. Bottom-left panel has white text 'GOP' with black outline. Bottom-right panel has white text '2010' with black outline. All text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background is dark with a yellow horizontal stripe behind the person. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sarah Palin

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

Named Entities

  • Sarah Palin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Sarah Palin 2012
  • Sarah Palin 2010
  • GOP 2012
  • GOP 2010
  • Palin 2012
  • Palin 2010
  • GOP 2012 2010
  • Palin 2012 2010

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Visible Text

  • PALIN
  • 2012
  • GOP
  • 2010

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sarah Palin

Wordwall

  • four
  • light brown hair
  • side part
  • broad smile
  • dark top
  • yellow horizontal stripe
  • red 'PALIN'
  • blue '2012'
  • white 'GOP'
  • white '2010'
  • bold pixelated text
  • dark background
  • low-resolution pixelated appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081105172111378894259
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/319cebd92adc0a0c97089385369627d379a0cbfa37c067f08b51bb92805fc2df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
319cebd92adc0a0c
SHA-256
319cebd92adc0a0c97089385369627d379a0cbfa37c067f08b51bb92805fc2df
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089623

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,263 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 755

Review tags

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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • light brown
  • yellow
  • dark

Composition

  • four
  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid. Each panel shows a person with light brown hair styled in a side part, wearing a dark top with a yellow horizontal stripe. The person is smiling broadly in all panels. Top-left panel has red text 'PALIN' with black outline. Top-right panel has blue text '2012' with black outline. Bottom-left panel has white text 'GOP' with black outline. Bottom-right panel has white text '2010' with black outline. All text uses a bold, pixelated font. The background is dark with a yellow horizontal stripe behind the person. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with light brown hair smiling, with text overlays changing

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sarah Palin

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

Mood

  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • Sarah Palin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Sarah Palin 2012
  • Sarah Palin 2010
  • GOP 2012
  • GOP 2010
  • Palin 2012
  • Palin 2010
  • GOP 2012 2010
  • Palin 2012 2010

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

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  • pixelated
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Subjects

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  • GOP
  • 2010

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  • side part
  • broad smile
  • dark top
  • yellow horizontal stripe
  • red 'PALIN'
  • blue '2012'
  • white 'GOP'
  • white '2010'
  • bold pixelated text
  • dark background
  • low-resolution pixelated appearance
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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
20081105172111378894259
Archive entry
20081105172111378894259.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081105172111378894259.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081105172111378894259.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016