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A four- shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change

A four- shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears in top-right
  • symbol overlays mouth in bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • Text "This might take a while" appears in top-right ; symbol =] overlays mouth in bottom-left

Composition

  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain chimpanzee
  • bottom-right empty gray space

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated chimpanzees against a solid light green background. Top-left panel: chimpanzee covers mouth with hands, eyes closed in a smile. Top-right panel: same chimpanzee, black outlined white text "This might take a while" appears over the face. Bottom-left panel: same chimpanzee, large black and white equals sign followed by right bracket symbol (]=[) overlays the mouth area. Bottom-right panel is empty gray space. All panels share identical pixelation style and background.

Description

  • A four- shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chimpanzee text this might take a while
  • pixelated chimpanzee equals sign bracket
  • green background chimpanzee animation
  • chimpanzee text symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change across panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text "This might take a while" appears in top-right panel; symbol =] overlays mouth in bottom-left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel empty gray space
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels contain chimpanzee
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: symbol overlays mouth in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined animation: text appears in top-right panel
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid chimpanzee text symbol

Visible Text

  • This
  • might
  • take
  • a
  • while

Visually Supported Entities

  • chimpanzee

Wordwall

  • chimpanzee
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • text "This might take a while"
  • symbol =]

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200903071945121411018978
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/57006e1e5ef7b33afe59a53d3a077b8f6c32e92d4bc61c3492bb7704d4b26984.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
57006e1e5ef7b33a
SHA-256
57006e1e5ef7b33afe59a53d3a077b8f6c32e92d4bc61c3492bb7704d4b26984
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:29 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126553

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 674

Review tags

  • covers mouth with hands (action, 0.80)
  • eyes closed in smile (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • chimpanzee (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • covers mouth with hands
  • eyes closed in smile

Animation

  • text appears in top-right
  • symbol overlays mouth in bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • Text "This might take a while" appears in top-right ; symbol =] overlays mouth in bottom-left

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • beige

Composition

  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain chimpanzee
  • bottom-right empty gray space

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated chimpanzees against a solid light green background. Top-left panel: chimpanzee covers mouth with hands, eyes closed in a smile. Top-right panel: same chimpanzee, black outlined white text "This might take a while" appears over the face. Bottom-left panel: same chimpanzee, large black and white equals sign followed by right bracket symbol (]=[) overlays the mouth area. Bottom-right panel is empty gray space. All panels share identical pixelation style and background.

Description

  • A four- shows a pixelated chimpanzee with green background; text and symbols change

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • chimpanzee text this might take a while
  • pixelated chimpanzee equals sign bracket
  • green background chimpanzee animation
  • chimpanzee text symbol

Objects

  • text
  • symbol =]

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Text "This might take a while" appears in top-right panel; symbol =] overlays mouth in bottom-left panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: symbol overlays mouth in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined animation: text appears in top-right panel
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid chimpanzee text symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • chimpanzee

Visible Text

  • This
  • might
  • take
  • a
  • while

Visually Supported Entities

  • chimpanzee

Wordwall

  • chimpanzee
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • text "This might take a while"
  • symbol =]
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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
200903071945121411018978
Archive entry
200903071945121411018978.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200903071945121411018978.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200903071945121411018978.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016