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Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue background.

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Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue background.

Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static displayed

Composition

  • four
  • top-left group
  • top-right single
  • bottom-left pair
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Four distinct penguin images: top-left shows five penguins with black-and-white bodies, orange beaks, and orange feet; top-right shows a single penguin with blue hair, white chest, and blue feet; bottom-left shows two penguins with black-and-white bodies and orange beaks against a blue background; bottom-right is a solid gray square. All penguins have rounded bodies and stylized features. The blue penguin has a smooth, glossy appearance. The background of the bottom-left image is light blue with subtle texture. The gray square has no visible details.

Description

  • Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090207055343508469908

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • penguins orange beaks
  • blue penguin white chest
  • penguins black-and-white bodies
  • light blue background penguins
  • gray square penguin
  • penguins blue feet
  • penguins orange feet
  • penguins cartoon style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • all panels static
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels displayed.
  • quarantined composition: four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • five penguins
  • orange beaks
  • orange feet
  • blue hair
  • white chest
  • blue feet
  • black-and-white bodies
  • light blue background
  • solid gray square

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090207055343508469908
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6ccaa377f206502ce47c9fcf043b05ec36402a190e5709a9fca8ef3e099c341c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
6ccaa377f206502c
SHA-256
6ccaa377f206502ce47c9fcf043b05ec36402a190e5709a9fca8ef3e099c341c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079657

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928363onnx/unsafe0.079657onnx/nsfw0.044348onnx/nsfl0.035309
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Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,421 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 837

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • penguins (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; four static displayed

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left group
  • top-right single
  • bottom-left pair
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Four distinct penguin images: top-left shows five penguins with black-and-white bodies, orange beaks, and orange feet; top-right shows a single penguin with blue hair, white chest, and blue feet; bottom-left shows two penguins with black-and-white bodies and orange beaks against a blue background; bottom-right is a solid gray square. All penguins have rounded bodies and stylized features. The blue penguin has a smooth, glossy appearance. The background of the bottom-left image is light blue with subtle texture. The gray square has no visible details.

Description

  • Animated penguin group with orange beaks and feet, blue penguin with white chest, and penguins in blue 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090207055343508469908

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • penguins orange beaks
  • blue penguin white chest
  • penguins black-and-white bodies
  • light blue background penguins
  • gray square penguin
  • penguins blue feet
  • penguins orange feet
  • penguins cartoon style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • all panels static
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible animation changes; four static panels displayed.
  • quarantined composition: four panels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • stylized

Subjects

  • penguins

Wordwall

  • five penguins
  • orange beaks
  • orange feet
  • blue hair
  • white chest
  • blue feet
  • black-and-white bodies
  • light blue background
  • solid gray square
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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
20090207055343508469908
Archive entry
20090207055343508469908.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090207055343508469908.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090207055343508469908.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016