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Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right.

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Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right.

Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two text boxes above two icons
  • horizontal text boxes
  • icon layout: left Elmo, right Cookie Monster

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two horizontal pixelated rectangular text boxes at top: upper box is light gray with faint pixelated text, lower box is light gray with faint pixelated text and a small purple pixel near left edge. Below text boxes, two pixelated character icons: left icon is red with large white eyes, yellow nose, black mouth, and red lips; right icon is blue with large white eyes, black pupils, black mouth, and blue lips. Both icons have pixelated rendering style.

Description

Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Elmo
  • Cookie Monster

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Elmo Cookie Monster blue background
  • pixelated Sesame Street icons
  • two text boxes blue background
  • red and blue character icons

Style

  • 2D

Uncertain Text

  • faint text in upper box
  • faint text in lower box

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo
  • Cookie Monster

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • two text boxes
  • Elmo icon
  • Cookie Monster icon
  • pixelated rendering
  • red character
  • blue character
  • white eyes
  • yellow nose
  • black mouth
  • faint text
  • purple pixel
  • horizontal text boxes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708201948081793193461
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36f114577ea4ec4e3053ee84e23a0024630a13e9297d55f0313af813a616cd39.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
36f114577ea4ec4e
SHA-256
36f114577ea4ec4e3053ee84e23a0024630a13e9297d55f0313af813a616cd39
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070725

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:03 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,421 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 726

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cookie monster (subject, 0.80)
  • elmo (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • red
  • yellow
  • white
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • two text boxes above two icons
  • horizontal text boxes
  • icon layout: left Elmo, right Cookie Monster

Dense Caption

Blue background. Two horizontal pixelated rectangular text boxes at top: upper box is light gray with faint pixelated text, lower box is light gray with faint pixelated text and a small purple pixel near left edge. Below text boxes, two pixelated character icons: left icon is red with large white eyes, yellow nose, black mouth, and red lips; right icon is blue with large white eyes, black pupils, black mouth, and blue lips. Both icons have pixelated rendering style.

Description

Blue background with two pixelated rectangular text boxes above two Sesame Street character icons: Elmo on the left and Cookie Monster on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Elmo
  • Cookie Monster

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated Sesame Street icons
  • two text boxes blue background
  • red and blue character icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • Elmo
  • Cookie Monster

Uncertain Text

  • faint text in upper box
  • faint text in lower box

Visually Supported Entities

  • Elmo
  • Cookie Monster

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • two text boxes
  • Elmo icon
  • Cookie Monster icon
  • pixelated rendering
  • red character
  • blue character
  • white eyes
  • yellow nose
  • black mouth
  • faint text
  • purple pixel
  • horizontal text boxes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708201948081793193461
Archive entry
200708201948081793193461.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708201948081793193461.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708201948081793193461.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016