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Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble.

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Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble.

Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned duck
  • right-side elements
  • static composition

Dense Caption

Yellow cartoon duck with orange beak and webbed feet stands upright on left side of frame. To its right is a small black silhouette figure with red eyes against white background. Above the silhouette is a gray speech bubble containing faint pixelated text. The top-left corner displays partial blue text reading "the" followed by dark pixels. Duck remains static while other elements are visible in same composition.

Description

  • Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble.

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

  • yellow duck cartoon
  • black silhouette figure
  • speech bubble text
  • blue text fragment

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • the

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Wordwall

  • yellow duck
  • orange beak
  • webbed feet
  • black silhouette figure
  • red eyes
  • gray speech bubble
  • blue text fragment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902212041241523130831
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
8.3 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/55021b4fb4d35fd5311867161e3437ffc8b6463b4e67f9ac5ed76f4d184679ef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
55021b4fb4d35fd5
SHA-256
55021b4fb4d35fd5311867161e3437ffc8b6463b4e67f9ac5ed76f4d184679ef
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.047040

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.284205

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,641 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,168, response 588

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • duck (subject, 0.80)
  • silhouette figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • left-aligned duck
  • right-side elements
  • static composition

Dense Caption

Yellow cartoon duck with orange beak and webbed feet stands upright on left side of frame. To its right is a small black silhouette figure with red eyes against white background. Above the silhouette is a gray speech bubble containing faint pixelated text. The top-left corner displays partial blue text reading "the" followed by dark pixels. Duck remains static while other elements are visible in same composition.

Description

  • Animated yellow duck with orange beak and feet stands on white background, next to small black figure and speech bubble.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck cartoon
  • black silhouette figure
  • speech bubble text
  • blue text fragment

Objects

  • speech bubble

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • duck
  • silhouette figure

Visible Text

  • the

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Wordwall

  • yellow duck
  • orange beak
  • webbed feet
  • black silhouette figure
  • red eyes
  • gray speech bubble
  • blue text fragment
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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
200902212041241523130831
Archive entry
200902212041241523130831.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902212041241523130831.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902212041241523130831.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016