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four showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left displays a date

four showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left displays a date. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above and below paperclips
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid of panels. Top-left panel: black text "i love" above five vertical paperclips in pink, red, green, yellow, and light blue. Top-right panel: black text "alan<33" above identical paperclips. Bottom-left panel: black text "!4.11.08!" above identical paperclips. Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All paperclips are identical in shape and color across panels. Text is pixelated and rendered in a monospaced font. The background is white in all panels except the bottom-right, which is gray.

Description

  • four showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left displays a date

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love alan<33
  • 4.11.08 paperclips
  • pink red green yellow light blue paperclips
  • white gray background paperclips
  • monospaced text paperclips
  • paperclips
  • pixelated text paperclips
  • identical paperclips

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four panels showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left panel displays a date.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: solid background panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid paperclips

Visible Text

  • i love
  • alan<33
  • !4.11.08!

Wordwall

  • i love
  • alan<33
  • !4.11.08!
  • paperclips
  • pink
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • white background
  • gray background
  • monospaced text
  • pixelated text
  • identical paperclips

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809091328201384679261
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/44/44533fa6a5ff0d68107ad3e92fc4063e2c42f314126c9cc288a36b2bb8c25024.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
44533fa6a5ff0d68
SHA-256
44533fa6a5ff0d68107ad3e92fc4063e2c42f314126c9cc288a36b2bb8c25024
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085597

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919561onnx/unsafe0.085597onnx/nsfw0.051591onnx/nsfl0.034005
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four showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left displays a date

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,217 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 800

Review tags

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  • pink
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • text above and below paperclips
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a 2x2 grid of panels. Top-left panel: black text "i love" above five vertical paperclips in pink, red, green, yellow, and light blue. Top-right panel: black text "alan<33" above identical paperclips. Bottom-left panel: black text "!4.11.08!" above identical paperclips. Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All paperclips are identical in shape and color across panels. Text is pixelated and rendered in a monospaced font. The background is white in all panels except the bottom-right, which is gray.

Description

  • four showing a static image of colorful paperclips with text above and below, where the bottom-left displays a date

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • i love alan<33
  • 4.11.08 paperclips
  • pink red green yellow light blue paperclips
  • white gray background paperclips
  • monospaced text paperclips
  • paperclips
  • pixelated text paperclips
  • identical paperclips

Objects

  • paperclips

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: solid background panels
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Style

  • pixelated
  • monospaced text

Subjects

  • paperclips

Visible Text

  • i love
  • alan<33
  • !4.11.08!

Wordwall

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  • alan<33
  • !4.11.08!
  • paperclips
  • pink
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • white background
  • gray background
  • monospaced text
  • pixelated text
  • identical paperclips
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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
200809091328201384679261
Archive entry
200809091328201384679261.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809091328201384679261.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809091328201384679261.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016