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Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'

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Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'

Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none

Composition

  • character on top of box
  • text centered on front face

Dense Caption

A pixelated blue cartoon character with a single horizontal line for a mouth sits atop a light brown cardboard box. The box has dark gray text reading "Don't ask me." in three lines: first line "Don't", second line "ask", third line "me.". The character's head is rounded, and the box has visible edges suggesting depth. All elements are rendered with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080420121835645010809
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cartoon character box text don't ask me
  • pixel art blue character beige box
  • cartoon character horizontal mouth line

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Don't
  • ask
  • me.

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • beige cardboard box
  • text: Don't ask me
  • horizontal mouth line
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080420121835645010809
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3ed278c0108fc0639ba00eecc5d5b6e0104e48c6c885f0cbae011a5d76d13c41.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
3ed278c0108fc063
SHA-256
3ed278c0108fc0639ba00eecc5d5b6e0104e48c6c885f0cbae011a5d76d13c41
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083576

OpenAI category scores

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Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,285 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 620

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cardboard box (object, 0.80)
  • none (other, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • none

Colors

  • blue
  • beige
  • dark gray

Composition

  • character on top of box
  • text centered on front face

Dense Caption

A pixelated blue cartoon character with a single horizontal line for a mouth sits atop a light brown cardboard box. The box has dark gray text reading "Don't ask me." in three lines: first line "Don't", second line "ask", third line "me.". The character's head is rounded, and the box has visible edges suggesting depth. All elements are rendered with blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue cartoon character with a flat expression sits inside a beige box labeled 'Don't ask me.'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080420121835645010809
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art blue character beige box
  • cartoon character horizontal mouth line

Objects

  • cardboard box

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Don't
  • ask
  • me.

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon character

Wordwall

  • blue cartoon character
  • beige cardboard box
  • text: Don't ask me
  • horizontal mouth line
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20080420121835645010809
Archive entry
20080420121835645010809.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080420121835645010809.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080420121835645010809.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016