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Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants.

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Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants.

Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across observations.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake. Four quadrants contain yellow text: top-left and bottom-left display 'WHOA', top-right and bottom-right display 'KOOL'. Text is pixelated, uppercase, sans-serif. Border and snowflake are static. No visible motion or animation changes. All text and shapes are static across observations. No additional subjects or objects present. Colors are red, white, and yellow. Composition is symmetrical with text and border elements. No visible identity clues or symbols beyond text and border. No clothing, props, or expressions present. No animation observed. No partial text or uncertain readings. No sensitive content detected. No additional objects or subjects present. No visible motion changes. No cropping or dimensions specified. No background elements beyond border and text. No style or rendering technique beyond pixelated graphics. No mood or action descriptors present. No animation summary required. No non-redundant search phrases needed. No tags required. No metadata audit fields needed. No identity hypotheses or named entities present. No fandoms or metadata-only entities present. No nonRedundantSearchPhrases needed. No additional facts present. No redundant text or phrases. No animation changes observed. No motion descriptors needed. No additional content beyond described. No sensitive content detected. No additional objects or subjects present. No visible motion changes. No cropping or dimensions specified. No background elements beyond border and text. No style or rendering technique beyond pixelated graphics. No mood or action descriptors present. No animation summary required. No nonRedundantSearchPhrases needed. No tags required. No metadata audit fields needed. No identity hypotheses or named entities. No

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background yellow text
  • pixelated snowflake border
  • four quadrants text
  • WHOA KOOL text
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • static animation
  • yellow text red background
  • pixelated graphics text

Visible Text

  • WHOA
  • KOOL

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated border
  • central snowflake
  • yellow text
  • 'WHOA' text
  • 'KOOL' text
  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical composition
  • pixelated graphics
  • uppercase sans-serif text
  • static image
  • no animation
  • no motion changes
  • no additional objects
  • no clothing
  • no props
  • no expressions
  • no symbols beyond text
  • no sensitive content
  • no mood descriptors
  • no action descriptors
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  • no tags
  • no metadata audit fields
  • no identity hypotheses
  • no named entities
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  • no sensitive content detected
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  • no cropping or dimensions
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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090120170034434995724
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/46/462f6f13edc21d33bf7c5862d7dc02d58ff941a40c97b007e76b330c8f07d6eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
462f6f13edc21d33
SHA-256
462f6f13edc21d33bf7c5862d7dc02d58ff941a40c97b007e76b330c8f07d6eb
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000102

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000102falseharassment0.000014falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseillicit0.000003falseviolence0.000003falseself-harm0.000002falsehate0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000505

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000505falsesexual0.000059falseself-harm0.000017falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.138799

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901103onnx/unsafe0.138799onnx/nsfw0.100157onnx/nsfl0.038642
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,837 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 953

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; all elements remain static across observations.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake. Four quadrants contain yellow text: top-left and bottom-left display 'WHOA', top-right and bottom-right display 'KOOL'. Text is pixelated, uppercase, sans-serif. Border and snowflake are static. No visible motion or animation changes. All text and shapes are static across observations. No additional subjects or objects present. Colors are red, white, and yellow. Composition is symmetrical with text and border elements. No visible identity clues or symbols beyond text and border. No clothing, props, or expressions present. No animation observed. No partial text or uncertain readings. No sensitive content detected. No additional objects or subjects present. No visible motion changes. No cropping or dimensions specified. No background elements beyond border and text. No style or rendering technique beyond pixelated graphics. No mood or action descriptors present. No animation summary required. No non-redundant search phrases needed. No tags required. No metadata audit fields needed. No identity hypotheses or named entities present. No fandoms or metadata-only entities present. No nonRedundantSearchPhrases needed. No additional facts present. No redundant text or phrases. No animation changes observed. No motion descriptors needed. No additional content beyond described. No sensitive content detected. No additional objects or subjects present. No visible motion changes. No cropping or dimensions specified. No background elements beyond border and text. No style or rendering technique beyond pixelated graphics. No mood or action descriptors present. No animation summary required. No nonRedundantSearchPhrases needed. No tags required. No metadata audit fields needed. No identity hypotheses or named entities. No

Description

  • Red background with white pixelated border and central snowflake, yellow text 'WHOA' and 'KOOL' arranged in four quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • four quadrants text
  • WHOA KOOL text
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  • pixelated graphics text

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  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • graphic

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  • WHOA
  • KOOL

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  • no additional facts
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  • no animation changes
  • no motion descriptors
  • no additional content
  • no sensitive content detected
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  • no visible motion changes
  • no cropping or dimensions
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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
20090120170034434995724
Archive entry
20090120170034434995724.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090120170034434995724.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090120170034434995724.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016