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Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text.

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Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text.

Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text. Animated 50…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • cyclic state change

Animation Summary

Cyclic animation cycles through three distinct visual states: dolphin silhouette with "Liam$156" text, disco ball with "is" text, and potato with "cool" text, each in separate positions

Composition

  • three distinct states

Dense Caption

The icon displays three sequential visual states: first, a dark dolphin silhouette on a light blue background with a blue rectangular text box containing "Liam$156" in white sans-serif font; second, a silver and black checkered disco ball with a green square text box containing "is" in white sans-serif font; third, a brown potato-shaped object with a red rectangular text box containing "cool" in white sans-serif font. All states share the same pixel dimensions and grid layout. The animation cycles through these three distinct visual configurations without additional motion within each state.

Description

Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dolphin Liam$156
  • disco ball is
  • potato cool
  • Liam$156 disco ball potato
  • dolphin disco ball potato
  • Liam$156 is cool
  • dolphin is cool
  • disco ball cool

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Cyclic animation cycles through three distinct visual states: dolphin silhouette with "Liam$156" text, disco ball with "is" text, and potato with "cool" text, each in separate grid positions.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Liam$156
  • is
  • cool

Wordwall

  • dolphin silhouette
  • blue background
  • text box
  • Liam$156
  • disco ball
  • checkered pattern
  • green text box
  • is
  • potato shape
  • red text box
  • cool

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100331131548263099541
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/4323d6fcea42cde60c9a90f066fc8226294e2de6bfe91f97604a6f0a067cf314.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
4323d6fcea42cde6
SHA-256
4323d6fcea42cde60c9a90f066fc8226294e2de6bfe91f97604a6f0a067cf314
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 12:41 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093913

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926681onnx/unsafe0.093913onnx/nsfw0.047300onnx/nsfl0.046612
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,615 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 827

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered pattern (object, 0.80)
  • text box (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified shapes (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • disco ball (subject, 0.80)
  • dolphin silhouette (subject, 0.80)
  • potato shaped object (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • cyclic state change

Animation Summary

Cyclic animation cycles through three distinct visual states: dolphin silhouette with "Liam$156" text, disco ball with "is" text, and potato with "cool" text, each in separate positions

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • dark gray
  • green
  • red
  • brown
  • silver
  • black

Composition

  • three distinct states

Dense Caption

The icon displays three sequential visual states: first, a dark dolphin silhouette on a light blue background with a blue rectangular text box containing "Liam$156" in white sans-serif font; second, a silver and black checkered disco ball with a green square text box containing "is" in white sans-serif font; third, a brown potato-shaped object with a red rectangular text box containing "cool" in white sans-serif font. All states share the same pixel dimensions and grid layout. The animation cycles through these three distinct visual configurations without additional motion within each state.

Description

Animated icon shows a dolphin silhouette against blue sky with text "Liam$156" in blue box, then a disco ball with green "is" text, then a potato with red "cool" text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dolphin Liam$156
  • disco ball is
  • potato cool
  • Liam$156 disco ball potato
  • dolphin disco ball potato
  • Liam$156 is cool
  • dolphin is cool
  • disco ball cool

Objects

  • text box
  • checkered pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Cyclic animation cycles through three distinct visual states: dolphin silhouette with "Liam$156" text, disco ball with "is" text, and potato with "cool" text, each in separate grid positions.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified shapes
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • dolphin silhouette
  • disco ball
  • potato-shaped object

Visible Text

  • Liam$156
  • is
  • cool

Wordwall

  • dolphin silhouette
  • blue background
  • text box
  • Liam$156
  • disco ball
  • checkered pattern
  • green text box
  • is
  • potato shape
  • red text box
  • cool
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:27 UTC
Run
61
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100331131548263099541
Archive entry
20100331131548263099541.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100331131548263099541.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100331131548263099541.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016