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A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds.

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A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds.

A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • top-left character
  • bottom-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a black-and-white cartoon character with large white eyes, a wide open mouth revealing teeth, and dark hair against a light gray background. Bottom-left quadrant contains brown pixelated text reading "searching for a chance to catch my breath." Top-right quadrant has brown pixelated text reading "sentences of yours, running throughout my head" on cyan background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712201852131102362040

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character text
  • black white cyan gray pixelated
  • sentences of yours running throughout my head
  • searching for a chance to catch my breath

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right empty panel
  • quarantined retrieval: cartoon character text panels

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • sentences of yours, running throughout my head
  • searching for a chance to catch my breath.

Wordwall

  • black-and-white cartoon character
  • large white eyes
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • dark hair
  • light gray background
  • brown pixelated text
  • cyan background
  • solid gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712201852131102362040
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/869c7aebd6ea575803b0a28245934cb56e6744b822bdf75e73eceef37314bf7f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
869c7aebd6ea5758
SHA-256
869c7aebd6ea575803b0a28245934cb56e6744b822bdf75e73eceef37314bf7f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.165612

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:22 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,200 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 680

Review tags

  • eyes wide (action, 0.80)
  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • anxious (mood, 0.80)
  • overwhelmed (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • split screen (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open
  • eyes wide

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • cyan
  • brown

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • top-left character
  • bottom-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows a black-and-white cartoon character with large white eyes, a wide open mouth revealing teeth, and dark hair against a light gray background. Bottom-left quadrant contains brown pixelated text reading "searching for a chance to catch my breath." Top-right quadrant has brown pixelated text reading "sentences of yours, running throughout my head" on cyan background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray with no visible content.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a black-and-white cartoon character on the top-left and pixelated text in brown on cyan backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712201852131102362040

Mood

  • anxious
  • overwhelmed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character text
  • black white cyan gray pixelated
  • sentences of yours running throughout my head
  • searching for a chance to catch my breath

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right empty panel
  • quarantined retrieval: cartoon character text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • split-screen

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • sentences of yours, running throughout my head
  • searching for a chance to catch my breath.

Wordwall

  • black-and-white cartoon character
  • large white eyes
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • dark hair
  • light gray background
  • brown pixelated text
  • cyan background
  • solid gray
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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
200712201852131102362040
Archive entry
200712201852131102362040.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712201852131102362040.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712201852131102362040.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016