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A four- shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing

A four- shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes : "Thomas H" → "296" → "ROCKS"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across four : "Thomas H" appears top-left, "296" obscures the face in top-right, and "ROCKS" appears bottom-left

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: the person has visible eyes and nose; red text "Thomas H" appears at top left. Top-right quadrant: the person's face is partially obscured by large red numbers "296" covering the eye area. Bottom-left quadrant: the person's head is tilted downward with closed or squinted eyes; red text "ROCKS" appears at bottom left. All panels share a yellow textured background and pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201201100407211049555938

Named Entities

  • Thomas H

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thomas h rocks
  • 296 obscured face
  • four buddy icon
  • yellow background red text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing across panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change across four panels: "Thomas H" appears top-left, "296" obscures the face in top-right, and "ROCKS" appears bottom-left.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined animation: text changes across panels: "Thomas H" → "296" → "ROCKS"
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel buddy icon

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Thomas H
  • 296
  • ROCKS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Thomas H

Wordwall

  • four
  • yellow background
  • long dark hair
  • red text overlays
  • 296 obscures face
  • ROCKS text
  • Thomas H text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201201100407211049555938
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3f5ff57e53a048a70db9138ad308596ca595faba9d8e44f46663de11833f4d83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
3f5ff57e53a048a7
SHA-256
3f5ff57e53a048a70db9138ad308596ca595faba9d8e44f46663de11833f4d83
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
0.117325

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:41 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,059 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 704

Review tags

  • face obscured by numbers (action, 0.80)
  • head tilted downward (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes thomas h 296 rocks (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person with long dark hair (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • face obscured by numbers
  • head tilted downward

Animation

  • text changes : "Thomas H" → "296" → "ROCKS"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across four : "Thomas H" appears top-left, "296" obscures the face in top-right, and "ROCKS" appears bottom-left

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: the person has visible eyes and nose; red text "Thomas H" appears at top left. Top-right quadrant: the person's face is partially obscured by large red numbers "296" covering the eye area. Bottom-left quadrant: the person's head is tilted downward with closed or squinted eyes; red text "ROCKS" appears at bottom left. All panels share a yellow textured background and pixelated rendering style.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with long dark hair against a yellow background, with red text overlays changing

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201201100407211049555938

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • Thomas H

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • thomas h rocks
  • 296 obscured face
  • four buddy icon
  • yellow background red text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid layout
  • quarantined animation: text changes across panels: "Thomas H" → "296" → "ROCKS"
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel buddy icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person with long dark hair

Visible Text

  • Thomas H
  • 296
  • ROCKS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Thomas H

Wordwall

  • four
  • yellow background
  • long dark hair
  • red text overlays
  • 296 obscures face
  • ROCKS text
  • Thomas H text
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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
201201100407211049555938
Archive entry
201201100407211049555938.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201201100407211049555938.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201201100407211049555938.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016