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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects.

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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects.

Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; static of four distinct pixelated scenes

Composition

  • four equal quadrants

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows partial green tennis court background with yellow lines; top-right displays scattered black musical notes on white. Bottom-left contains gray background with pixelated text 'nerds rule!', cartoon figure in white shirt brown pants holding wooden stick and blue triangle. Bottom-right is solid light gray. All quadrants are equal-sized, forming a 2x2 grid layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080806112013249902976

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tennis music nerds rule cartoon
  • tennis court musical notes 'nerds rule' character
  • tennis music text cartoon character
  • tennis court music notes 'nerds rule' blue triangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes; static 2x2 grid of four distinct pixelated scenes.
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid layout

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Tennis
  • Music
  • nerds rule!

Wordwall

  • tennis court
  • musical notes
  • nerds rule!
  • cartoon character
  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • wooden stick
  • blue triangle
  • gray background
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080806112013249902976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b577a23402ea9e0e394703e4f387f639e0a6e5ef8cbb27960e8ee8fbe34678c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
5b577a23402ea9e0
SHA-256
5b577a23402ea9e0e394703e4f387f639e0a6e5ef8cbb27960e8ee8fbe34678c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095026

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,579 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blue triangle (object, 0.80)
  • musical notes (object, 0.80)
  • wooden stick (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • music notes (subject, 0.80)
  • tennis court (subject, 0.80)
  • text nerds rule (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; static of four distinct pixelated scenes

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • brown
  • light gray
  • blue

Composition

  • four equal quadrants

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows partial green tennis court background with yellow lines; top-right displays scattered black musical notes on white. Bottom-left contains gray background with pixelated text 'nerds rule!', cartoon figure in white shirt brown pants holding wooden stick and blue triangle. Bottom-right is solid light gray. All quadrants are equal-sized, forming a 2x2 grid layout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing tennis court, music notes, 'nerds rule!' text, and a cartoon character holding objects.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080806112013249902976

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tennis music nerds rule cartoon
  • tennis court musical notes 'nerds rule' character
  • tennis music text cartoon character
  • tennis court music notes 'nerds rule' blue triangle

Objects

  • tennis court
  • musical notes
  • wooden stick
  • blue triangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible motion changes; static 2x2 grid of four distinct pixelated scenes.
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • tennis court
  • music notes
  • text 'nerds rule!'
  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Tennis
  • Music
  • nerds rule!

Wordwall

  • tennis court
  • musical notes
  • nerds rule!
  • cartoon character
  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • wooden stick
  • blue triangle
  • gray background
  • light gray 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
20080806112013249902976
Archive entry
20080806112013249902976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080806112013249902976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080806112013249902976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016