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A person holding a microphone against an orange background with text overlays changing across frames.

A person holding a microphone against an orange background with text overlays changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "I" to "LUHV" to "DAVID RCHULETA" across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: "I" → "LUHV" → "DAVID RCHULETA".

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlays below chest

Dense Caption

The image shows a person in a brown jacket over a white shirt holding a black microphone. The background is solid orange. In the top-left frame, the text "I" appears below the person's chest; in the top-right frame, it changes to "LUHV"; and in the bottom-left frame, it reads "DAVID RCHULETA." The right side of the image has a gray rectangular area that is empty.

Description

  • A person holding a microphone against an orange background with text overlays changing across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • DAVID RCHULETA

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080425183704160950275
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • DAVID RCHULETA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding microphone orange background
  • text I LUHV DAVID RCHULETA
  • brown jacket white shirt microphone
  • pixelated animation text changes

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUHV
  • DAVID
  • RCHULETA

Visually Supported Entities

  • DAVID RCHULETA

Wordwall

  • person
  • brown jacket
  • white shirt
  • black microphone
  • orange background
  • text overlays
  • I
  • LUHV
  • DAVID RCHULETA

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080425183704160950275
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/7112450ff8015e61fbe0cd51e37da308df34926503720269830e7a5ae91c0182.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
7112450ff8015e61
SHA-256
7112450ff8015e61fbe0cd51e37da308df34926503720269830e7a5ae91c0182
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078955

OpenAI category scores

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A person holding a microphone against an orange background with text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:42 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,978 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 700

Review tags

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  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • microphone (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding a microphone

Animation

  • text changes from "I" to "LUHV" to "DAVID RCHULETA" across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially: "I" → "LUHV" → "DAVID RCHULETA".

Colors

  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlays below chest

Dense Caption

The image shows a person in a brown jacket over a white shirt holding a black microphone. The background is solid orange. In the top-left frame, the text "I" appears below the person's chest; in the top-right frame, it changes to "LUHV"; and in the bottom-left frame, it reads "DAVID RCHULETA." The right side of the image has a gray rectangular area that is empty.

Description

  • A person holding a microphone against an orange background with text overlays changing across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

  • DAVID RCHULETA

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080425183704160950275
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • DAVID RCHULETA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • text I LUHV DAVID RCHULETA
  • brown jacket white shirt microphone
  • pixelated animation text changes

Objects

  • microphone

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • I
  • LUHV
  • DAVID
  • RCHULETA

Visually Supported Entities

  • DAVID RCHULETA

Wordwall

  • person
  • brown jacket
  • white shirt
  • black microphone
  • orange background
  • text overlays
  • I
  • LUHV
  • DAVID RCHULETA
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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
20080425183704160950275
Archive entry
20080425183704160950275.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080425183704160950275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080425183704160950275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016