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A yellow bird in a cage with text overlays changing across frames.

A yellow bird in a cage with text overlays changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2010s…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "THE BIRD" to "IS" to "THE WORD"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from "THE BIRD" to "IS" to "THE WORD" while the bird and background remain static.

Composition

  • centered bird
  • text overlays on body

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow bird inside a metal cage. The background consists of vertical wooden slats and horizontal blue bars. In the top-left frame, black rectangular blocks overlay the bird's body displaying white uppercase letters "THE BIRD". In the top-right frame, the text changes to "IS" while the rest of the scene remains identical. In the bottom-left frame, the text changes again to "THE WORD", with no other visual alterations.

Description

  • A yellow bird in a cage with text overlays changing across frames.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow bird cage text
  • bird is word meme
  • pixelated bird text changes
  • caged yellow bird text

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS
  • THE WORD

Visually Supported Entities

  • bird

Wordwall

  • yellow bird
  • metal cage
  • wooden slats background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • text overlays
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811221649581781613829
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3ed9ff3f857b06715a7e3a7dff2279ccacc660a31546be1bbeb4e81740f42d25.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
3ed9ff3f857b0671
SHA-256
3ed9ff3f857b06715a7e3a7dff2279ccacc660a31546be1bbeb4e81740f42d25
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.082633

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924552onnx/unsafe0.082633onnx/nsfl0.042561onnx/nsfw0.040072
Enrichment records (1)
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A yellow bird in a cage with text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,544 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 605

Review tags

  • text overlay changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • bars (object, 0.80)
  • cage (object, 0.80)
  • slats (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text overlay changes

Animation

  • text changes from "THE BIRD" to "IS" to "THE WORD"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from "THE BIRD" to "IS" to "THE WORD" while the bird and background remain static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • centered bird
  • text overlays on body

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow bird inside a metal cage. The background consists of vertical wooden slats and horizontal blue bars. In the top-left frame, black rectangular blocks overlay the bird's body displaying white uppercase letters "THE BIRD". In the top-right frame, the text changes to "IS" while the rest of the scene remains identical. In the bottom-left frame, the text changes again to "THE WORD", with no other visual alterations.

Description

  • A yellow bird in a cage with text overlays changing across frames.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow bird cage text
  • bird is word meme
  • pixelated bird text changes
  • caged yellow bird text

Objects

  • cage
  • slats
  • bars

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS
  • THE WORD

Visually Supported Entities

  • bird

Wordwall

  • yellow bird
  • metal cage
  • wooden slats background
  • blue horizontal bars
  • text overlays
  • 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
200811221649581781613829
Archive entry
200811221649581781613829.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811221649581781613829.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811221649581781613829.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016