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Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black with yellow pixelated text

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black with yellow pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • duck on left
  • text on right
  • vertical text sections

Dense Caption

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background. Black panel with yellow pixelated text: "MISSING!! LOST!! HELP!!" above "IF YOU FIND A RUBBER DUCKY" and "PLEASE RETURN TO: ERNIE". Text uses mixed case with some letters lowercase. Duck is positioned on left side of composition. Text is arranged in three vertical sections on black background. Pixelated font style. Yellow text on black background. Duck has smooth rounded shape. Background behind duck is light gray.

Description

  • Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black with yellow pixelated 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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080911160138458022972
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow rubber duck missing
  • rubber duck return to ernie
  • missing rubber duck text
  • pixelated duck text
  • yellow duck orange beak blue eye
  • text rubber duck
  • missing lost help rubber duck
  • ernie rubber duck return

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black panel with yellow pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: black panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: text panel rubber duck
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated duck text panel

Visible Text

  • MISSING!!
  • LOST!!
  • HELP!!
  • iF
  • YOU
  • FiND A
  • RUBBER
  • DUCKY
  • PLEASE
  • RETURN
  • tO: ERNiE

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • orange beak
  • blue eye
  • light gray background
  • black
  • yellow pixelated text
  • MISSING!! LOST!! HELP!!
  • IF YOU FIND A RUBBER DUCKY
  • PLEASE RETURN TO: ERNIE
  • mixed case text
  • three vertical text sections
  • smooth rounded duck shape
  • pixelated font style
  • yellow text on black background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080911160138458022972
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
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4e1e2b4bf391971a5ca1ba15b31bd959e1fe418da877efb5f243d6ee16d2f1bc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
4e1e2b4bf391971a
SHA-256
4e1e2b4bf391971a5ca1ba15b31bd959e1fe418da877efb5f243d6ee16d2f1bc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127835

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927794onnx/unsafe0.127835onnx/nsfw0.089567onnx/nsfl0.038268
Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black with yellow pixelated text

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,570 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 876

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • rubber duck (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • light gray
  • black

Composition

  • left-right split
  • duck on left
  • text on right
  • vertical text sections

Dense Caption

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background. Black panel with yellow pixelated text: "MISSING!! LOST!! HELP!!" above "IF YOU FIND A RUBBER DUCKY" and "PLEASE RETURN TO: ERNIE". Text uses mixed case with some letters lowercase. Duck is positioned on left side of composition. Text is arranged in three vertical sections on black background. Pixelated font style. Yellow text on black background. Duck has smooth rounded shape. Background behind duck is light gray.

Description

  • Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black with yellow pixelated 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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080911160138458022972
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • urgent
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow rubber duck missing
  • rubber duck return to ernie
  • missing rubber duck text
  • pixelated duck text
  • yellow duck orange beak blue eye
  • text rubber duck
  • missing lost help rubber duck
  • ernie rubber duck return

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to black panel with yellow pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: black panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined retrieval: text panel rubber duck
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated duck text panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • rubber duck

Visible Text

  • MISSING!!
  • LOST!!
  • HELP!!
  • iF
  • YOU
  • FiND A
  • RUBBER
  • DUCKY
  • PLEASE
  • RETURN
  • tO: ERNiE

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • orange beak
  • blue eye
  • light gray background
  • black
  • yellow pixelated text
  • MISSING!! LOST!! HELP!!
  • IF YOU FIND A RUBBER DUCKY
  • PLEASE RETURN TO: ERNIE
  • mixed case text
  • three vertical text sections
  • smooth rounded duck shape
  • pixelated font style
  • yellow text on black background
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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
20080911160138458022972
Archive entry
20080911160138458022972.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#20080911160138458022972.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080911160138458022972.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016