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A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

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A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text label changes
  • top-left to top-right to bottom-left frames

Animation Summary

  • Text labels change across frames: 'Nick' → 'Jerry' → 'Jonas' while the cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders
  • centered subject
  • text above head
  • symbol below chin

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with curly dark hair and a purple shirt. Cyan text appears above the head: 'Nick' in the top-left frame, 'Jerry' in the top-right frame, and 'Jonas' in the bottom-left frame. A cyan '3' symbol is positioned below the chin in all visible frames. The background is white in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left frames; the bottom-right frame is a solid gray. The image has a pixelated rendering style with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly dark hair purple shirt cyan text
  • cyan '3' symbol person
  • text label changes purple shirt
  • pixelated rendering cyan text

Visible Text

  • Nick
  • Jerry
  • Jonas
  • 3

Wordwall

  • curly dark hair
  • purple shirt
  • cyan text
  • white background
  • gray background
  • cyan '3' symbol
  • pixelated rendering
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712010952161170701855
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71f5871f2fdd3482123e377d5e2ab470369ad07e60a2aba7cfb2fb5eeba55f01.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
71f5871f2fdd3482
SHA-256
71f5871f2fdd3482123e377d5e2ab470369ad07e60a2aba7cfb2fb5eeba55f01
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088776

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,706 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 724

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cyan 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • text label changes (other, 0.80)
  • top left to top right to bottom left frames (other, 0.80)
  • compression artifacts (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text label changes
  • top-left to top-right to bottom-left frames

Animation Summary

  • Text labels change across frames: 'Nick' → 'Jerry' → 'Jonas' while the cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • white
  • gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • head-and-shoulders
  • centered subject
  • text above head
  • symbol below chin

Dense Caption

The image shows a person with curly dark hair and a purple shirt. Cyan text appears above the head: 'Nick' in the top-left frame, 'Jerry' in the top-right frame, and 'Jonas' in the bottom-left frame. A cyan '3' symbol is positioned below the chin in all visible frames. The background is white in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left frames; the bottom-right frame is a solid gray. The image has a pixelated rendering style with visible compression artifacts.

Description

  • A person with curly dark hair wears a purple shirt; cyan text labels change across frames while a cyan '3' symbol remains constant.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • curly dark hair purple shirt cyan text
  • cyan '3' symbol person
  • text label changes purple shirt
  • pixelated rendering cyan text

Objects

  • cyan '3' symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Nick
  • Jerry
  • Jonas
  • 3

Wordwall

  • curly dark hair
  • purple shirt
  • cyan text
  • white background
  • gray background
  • cyan '3' symbol
  • pixelated rendering
  • compression artifacts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:53 UTC
Run
53
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200712010952161170701855
Archive entry
200712010952161170701855.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200712010952161170701855.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712010952161170701855.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016