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six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy

six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • six

Dense Caption

Top-left: rainbow gradient background with black text reading "Melanie is the best and you know it". Top-middle: person holding white and black penguin plush with orange beak. Top-right: person wearing dark cap and long dark hair. Bottom-left: person in blue shirt with long dark hair. Bottom-middle: bright pink background with blue text reading "go to: allmelanie.webs.com". Bottom-right: empty gray space. All images are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Melanie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • melanie buddy icon
  • allmelanie webs com
  • penguin plush buddy icon
  • rainbow text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy.
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

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

Visible Text

  • Melanie is the best and you know it
  • go to: allmelanie.webs.com

Visually Supported Entities

  • allmelanie.webs.com

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • black text
  • penguin plush
  • orange beak
  • dark cap
  • long dark hair
  • blue shirt
  • pink background
  • blue text
  • webs.com

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812311442132074482005
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74a4bb69bf40c6c9d0d6ddac2fa8b33341cb9cfbf6f3ad99432ba76f094f485b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
74a4bb69bf40c6c9
SHA-256
74a4bb69bf40c6c9d0d6ddac2fa8b33341cb9cfbf6f3ad99432ba76f094f485b
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000493

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 758

Review tags

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  • wearing (action, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • penguin plush (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • wearing

Colors

  • rainbow
  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • dark blue
  • pink
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • six

Dense Caption

Top-left: rainbow gradient background with black text reading "Melanie is the best and you know it". Top-middle: person holding white and black penguin plush with orange beak. Top-right: person wearing dark cap and long dark hair. Bottom-left: person in blue shirt with long dark hair. Bottom-middle: bright pink background with blue text reading "go to: allmelanie.webs.com". Bottom-right: empty gray space. All images are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Melanie

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • positive
  • promotional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • melanie buddy icon
  • allmelanie webs com
  • penguin plush buddy icon
  • rainbow text buddy icon

Objects

  • penguin plush

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated
  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images showing a person in various poses with text overlays and a penguin plush toy.
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • person
  • penguin plush

Visible Text

  • Melanie is the best and you know it
  • go to: allmelanie.webs.com

Visually Supported Entities

  • allmelanie.webs.com

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • black text
  • penguin plush
  • orange beak
  • dark cap
  • long dark hair
  • blue shirt
  • pink background
  • blue text
  • webs.com
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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
200812311442132074482005
Archive entry
200812311442132074482005.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812311442132074482005.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812311442132074482005.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016