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Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid text

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Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid text

Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • each contains single subject with text overlay

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown cardboard box on blue background with 'sarahc177' in blue pixelated font. Top-middle: brown horse standing on grassy field with 'ROX' in pink pixelated font. Top-right: close-up of yellow cartoon character's eye and mouth with 'your' in yellow pixelated font. Bottom-left: person holding object against light background with 'SOCKS' in green pixelated font. Bottom-middle: black heart shape on dark background with 'OFF' in red pixelated font. Bottom-right: white dog on grassy field with 'LOL' in teal pixelated font.

Description

  • Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cardboard box sarahc177
  • horse rox
  • cartoon eye your
  • person socks
  • heart off
  • dog lol

Objects

  • horse
  • eye
  • heart
  • dog

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique background imagery and overlaid text.
  • quarantined composition: each panel contains single subject with text overlay
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • text overlay

Subjects

  • horse
  • heart shape
  • dog

Visible Text

  • sarahc177
  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • OFF
  • LOL

Visually Supported Entities

  • sarahc177
  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • OFF
  • LOL

Wordwall

  • cardboard box
  • horse
  • cartoon eye
  • person holding object
  • heart shape
  • dog
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • yellow text
  • green text
  • red text
  • teal text

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011060503584022525149
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110605035857120490947
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201106051750161755190727
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
9 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a2d577d133aa78be730679c983a566d806c805de9ab078a6066f04269299ca0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
4a2d577d133aa78b
SHA-256
4a2d577d133aa78be730679c983a566d806c805de9ab078a6066f04269299ca0
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 28, 2026 at 19:05 UTC
Run
15954
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000882

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 14:04 UTC
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1262
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
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1033
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid text

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,250 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,253, response 717

Review tags

  • box (object, 0.80)
  • eye (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • mouth (object, 0.80)
  • object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated font (style, 0.80)
  • cardboard box (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character eye (subject, 0.80)
  • dog (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)
  • horse (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • green
  • pink
  • yellow
  • red
  • teal
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • six
  • each contains single subject with text overlay

Dense Caption

Top-left: brown cardboard box on blue background with 'sarahc177' in blue pixelated font. Top-middle: brown horse standing on grassy field with 'ROX' in pink pixelated font. Top-right: close-up of yellow cartoon character's eye and mouth with 'your' in yellow pixelated font. Bottom-left: person holding object against light background with 'SOCKS' in green pixelated font. Bottom-middle: black heart shape on dark background with 'OFF' in red pixelated font. Bottom-right: white dog on grassy field with 'LOL' in teal pixelated font.

Description

  • Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique background imagery and overlaid 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cardboard box sarahc177
  • horse rox
  • cartoon eye your
  • person socks
  • heart off
  • dog lol

Objects

  • box
  • horse
  • eye
  • mouth
  • object
  • heart
  • dog

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct buddy icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with unique background imagery and overlaid text.
  • quarantined composition: each panel contains single subject with text overlay
  • quarantined composition: six panels
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Style

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  • low-resolution imagery
  • 2D cartoon style
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • cardboard box
  • horse
  • cartoon character eye
  • person
  • heart shape
  • dog

Visible Text

  • sarahc177
  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • OFF
  • LOL

Visually Supported Entities

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  • ROX
  • your
  • SOCKS
  • OFF
  • LOL

Wordwall

  • cardboard box
  • horse
  • cartoon eye
  • person holding object
  • heart shape
  • dog
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • yellow text
  • green text
  • red text
  • teal text
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Full source records (3)

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
2011060503584022525149
Archive entry
2011060503584022525149.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#2011060503584022525149.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011060503584022525149.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20110605035857120490947
Archive entry
20110605035857120490947.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#20110605035857120490947.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110605035857120490947.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
201106051750161755190727
Archive entry
201106051750161755190727.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201106051750161755190727.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201106051750161755190727.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016