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Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space

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Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space

Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • four
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid layout. Top-left panel shows a person with long white hair and pale skin in a blue-toned background with text "An elf". Top-right panel shows a person with long brown hair and beard in a light background with text "A pirate". Bottom-left panel shows a person with dark hair and glasses in a dark background with text "he looks good as anything". Bottom-right panel is solid gray. All text is white with black outline. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • elf
  • pirate

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elf pirate person text
  • white hair brown hair glasses
  • blue light dark gray background
  • he looks good as anything

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated but no visible motion changes
  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: elf pirate person text grid

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

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • An elf
  • A pirate
  • he looks good as anything

Wordwall

  • four
  • text overlays
  • white hair
  • long brown hair
  • pale skin
  • beard
  • glasses
  • blue background
  • light background
  • dark background
  • solid gray
  • white text
  • black outline
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806201609231763994601
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/329ecec7501dd5dd71f6c460f9ef43298f52f2242bd96b8312c389eefd94c551.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
329ecec7501dd5dd
SHA-256
329ecec7501dd5dd71f6c460f9ef43298f52f2242bd96b8312c389eefd94c551
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095743

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920269onnx/unsafe0.095743onnx/nsfw0.051949onnx/nsfl0.043794
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Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,280 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 792

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • elf (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • pirate (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • light brown
  • dark brown
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left
  • top-right
  • bottom-left
  • bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid layout. Top-left panel shows a person with long white hair and pale skin in a blue-toned background with text "An elf". Top-right panel shows a person with long brown hair and beard in a light background with text "A pirate". Bottom-left panel shows a person with dark hair and glasses in a dark background with text "he looks good as anything". Bottom-right panel is solid gray. All text is white with black outline. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • Four- with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • elf
  • pirate

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elf pirate person text
  • white hair brown hair glasses
  • blue light dark gray background
  • he looks good as anything

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated but no visible motion changes
  • quarantined description: Four-panel grid with text overlays: top-left elf, top-right pirate, bottom-left person, bottom-right empty space.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: elf pirate person text grid

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • elf
  • pirate
  • person

Visible Text

  • An elf
  • A pirate
  • he looks good as anything

Wordwall

  • four
  • text overlays
  • white hair
  • long brown hair
  • pale skin
  • beard
  • glasses
  • blue background
  • light background
  • dark background
  • solid gray
  • white text
  • black outline
  • pixelated
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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
200806201609231763994601
Archive entry
200806201609231763994601.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806201609231763994601.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806201609231763994601.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016