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A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels.

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A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels.

A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche'
  • no other visible motion

Animation Summary

The cyan text in the bottom-left corner changes sequentially from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche' across three while all other visual elements remain static

Composition

  • close-up eye view
  • text labels in bottom-left corner
  • solid gray right section

Dense Caption

The image shows a single stylized eye with a black pupil at the center. The iris displays a spectrum of colors including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue arranged in concentric rings. Surrounding the eye is a grayscale textured area resembling fur or hair. In the bottom-left corner of each panel, cyan text appears: 'color' on top-left, 'me' on top-right, and 'cliche' on bottom-left. The rightmost section of the image is solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow eye
  • cyan text labels
  • grayscale fur texture
  • text change animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped and possibly upscaled
  • quarantined animationSummary: The cyan text in the bottom-left corner changes sequentially from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche' across three panels while all other visual elements remain static.

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

Subjects

  • eye

Visible Text

  • color
  • me
  • cliche

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808211731211970229339
  • 200808211731221341803817

Wordwall

  • rainbow iris
  • grayscale fur texture
  • cyan text labels
  • black pupil center
  • concentric color rings

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808211731211970229339
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808211731221341803817
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/787d1e6e8ff1bb3f6a8189dc2471346a19151a4a5fa0253d4022e2a0d0f516ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
787d1e6e8ff1bb3f
SHA-256
787d1e6e8ff1bb3f6a8189dc2471346a19151a4a5fa0253d4022e2a0d0f516ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
1055
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091360

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912009onnx/unsafe0.091360onnx/nsfw0.060202onnx/nsfl0.031158
Enrichment records (1)
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A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 20:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,778 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,159, response 832

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale with color accent (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • eye (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche'
  • no other visible motion

Animation Summary

The cyan text in the bottom-left corner changes sequentially from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche' across three while all other visual elements remain static

Colors

  • purple
  • pink
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • cyan
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • close-up eye view
  • text labels in bottom-left corner
  • solid gray right section

Dense Caption

The image shows a single stylized eye with a black pupil at the center. The iris displays a spectrum of colors including purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue arranged in concentric rings. Surrounding the eye is a grayscale textured area resembling fur or hair. In the bottom-left corner of each panel, cyan text appears: 'color' on top-left, 'me' on top-right, and 'cliche' on bottom-left. The rightmost section of the image is solid light gray with no additional elements.

Description

  • A close-up of a stylized eye with vibrant rainbow-colored iris, surrounded by grayscale fur-like texture and cyan text labels.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow eye
  • cyan text labels
  • grayscale fur texture
  • text change animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears cropped and possibly upscaled
  • quarantined animationSummary: The cyan text in the bottom-left corner changes sequentially from 'color' to 'me' to 'cliche' across three panels while all other visual elements remain static.

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

Style

  • stylized
  • pixelated
  • grayscale with color accent

Subjects

  • eye

Visible Text

  • color
  • me
  • cliche

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808211731211970229339
  • 200808211731221341803817

Wordwall

  • rainbow iris
  • grayscale fur texture
  • cyan text labels
  • black pupil center
  • concentric color rings
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Full source records (2)

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
200808211731211970229339
Archive entry
200808211731211970229339.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808211731211970229339.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808211731211970229339.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200808211731221341803817
Archive entry
200808211731221341803817.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808211731221341803817.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808211731221341803817.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016