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Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background.

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Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background.

Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'Crank' to 'Dot' to 'Soulja boy'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'Crank' to 'Dot' to 'Soulja boy' while character pose remains static.

Composition

  • character face centered
  • text above head
  • static background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static character face with white fur-like features and red accents on a brown background. The character has dark eyes and a red nose. Green text appears above the head: 'Crank' in the top-left frame, 'Dot' in the top-right frame, and 'Soulja boy' in the bottom-left frame. The text changes across frames while the character's pose and background remain constant. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution quality typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • character face green text Crank
  • character face green text Dot
  • character face green text Soulja boy
  • brown background white fur red accents
  • pixelated digital art text changes

Visible Text

  • Crank
  • Dot
  • Soulja boy

Wordwall

  • character face
  • white fur
  • red accents
  • brown background
  • green text
  • Crank
  • Dot
  • Soulja boy
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text changes
  • static pose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820121505276041599
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/64380a7f7c802f7feb23ac1051b1e8e16d74844b2f0cb29ec33ed626ebcb7158.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
64380a7f7c802f7f
SHA-256
64380a7f7c802f7feb23ac1051b1e8e16d74844b2f0cb29ec33ed626ebcb7158
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 22:45 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023229

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
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1039
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 730

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text changes from crank to dot to soulja boy (other, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • character face (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from 'Crank' to 'Dot' to 'Soulja boy'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'Crank' to 'Dot' to 'Soulja boy' while character pose remains static.

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • character face centered
  • text above head
  • static background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static character face with white fur-like features and red accents on a brown background. The character has dark eyes and a red nose. Green text appears above the head: 'Crank' in the top-left frame, 'Dot' in the top-right frame, and 'Soulja boy' in the bottom-left frame. The text changes across frames while the character's pose and background remain constant. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution quality typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

Animated sequence showing a character's face with changing text labels above the head, featuring red and white elements on a brown background.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • character face green text Crank
  • character face green text Dot
  • character face green text Soulja boy
  • brown background white fur red accents
  • pixelated digital art text changes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • character face

Visible Text

  • Crank
  • Dot
  • Soulja boy

Wordwall

  • character face
  • white fur
  • red accents
  • brown background
  • green text
  • Crank
  • Dot
  • Soulja boy
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text changes
  • static pose
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:20 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070820121505276041599
Archive entry
20070820121505276041599.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070820121505276041599.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820121505276041599.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016