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A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it.

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A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it.

A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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About this icon

Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal orientation
  • helicopter centered
  • figures below

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated helicopter with a dark green body and gray rotor blades, positioned horizontally against a light blue sky background. Two small dark figures, each with a lighter central section, are visible below the helicopter. The helicopter has a visible tail rotor and landing skids. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • helicopter pixelated low-resolution
  • dark green helicopter light blue sky
  • two small figures falling
  • helicopter rotor blades landing skids

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Wordwall

  • helicopter
  • pixelated
  • light blue sky
  • dark green
  • gray rotor blades
  • two small figures
  • tail rotor
  • landing skids
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal orientation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708052358331317952949
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7e4c3e1a652a99ce57f54e041e53b708f1a307e8c59d6ef0cf434787a5c49505.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
7e4c3e1a652a99ce
SHA-256
7e4c3e1a652a99ce57f54e041e53b708f1a307e8c59d6ef0cf434787a5c49505
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093145

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,627 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 713

Review tags

  • falling (action, 0.80)
  • flying (action, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • landing skids (object, 0.80)
  • rotor blades (object, 0.80)
  • tail rotor (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • helicopter (subject, 0.80)
  • two small figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flying
  • falling

Colors

  • light blue
  • dark green
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal orientation
  • helicopter centered
  • figures below

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated helicopter with a dark green body and gray rotor blades, positioned horizontally against a light blue sky background. Two small dark figures, each with a lighter central section, are visible below the helicopter. The helicopter has a visible tail rotor and landing skids. The image is low-resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated helicopter in mid-flight against a light blue sky, with two small dark figures below it.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • helicopter pixelated low-resolution
  • dark green helicopter light blue sky
  • two small figures falling
  • helicopter rotor blades landing skids

Objects

  • rotor blades
  • tail rotor
  • landing skids

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • helicopter
  • two small figures

Wordwall

  • helicopter
  • pixelated
  • light blue sky
  • dark green
  • gray rotor blades
  • two small figures
  • tail rotor
  • landing skids
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal orientation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200708052358331317952949
Archive entry
200708052358331317952949.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708052358331317952949.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708052358331317952949.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016