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Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background.

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Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background.

Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from My Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • claws change position
  • left claw lowers from U-shape to partial raise

Animation Summary

  • The left crab's left claw lowers from a fully raised U-shape to a partially lowered position while the right crab remains static.

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • symmetrical
  • centered

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated orange crab icons positioned side-by-side on a solid gray background. Each crab has a rounded orange body with two small black circular eyes and a white mouth detail composed of three horizontal lines. Both crabs have two raised claws; the left crab's left claw is fully raised with a U-shaped opening, while the right crab's left claw is partially lowered. Each crab has four small white-and-orange striped legs. The image uses a limited color palette of orange, gray, black, and white with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Only Entities

  • My-Buddy-Icons
  • mybuddy4
  • 082

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange crab animated
  • gray background crab
  • raised and lowered claws
  • pixelated crab mouth
  • striped crab legs
  • U-shaped crab claw
  • crab animation
  • crab side-by-side

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 082
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Wordwall

  • orange crab
  • gray background
  • raised claws
  • small black eyes
  • white mouth
  • striped legs
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • U-shaped claw
  • partially lowered claw

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/8922dd1316b21c3a578a2ad7871ffe4cf722b1b3206fd8830b3e2a67491b5df3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
8922dd1316b21c3a
SHA-256
8922dd1316b21c3a578a2ad7871ffe4cf722b1b3206fd8830b3e2a67491b5df3
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010235

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
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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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,755 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 908

Review tags

  • claws partially lowered (action, 0.80)
  • claws raised (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • claws change position (other, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • crab (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • claws raised
  • claws partially lowered

Animation

  • claws change position
  • left claw lowers from U-shape to partial raise

Animation Summary

  • The left crab's left claw lowers from a fully raised U-shape to a partially lowered position while the right crab remains static.

Colors

  • orange
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • symmetrical
  • centered

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated orange crab icons positioned side-by-side on a solid gray background. Each crab has a rounded orange body with two small black circular eyes and a white mouth detail composed of three horizontal lines. Both crabs have two raised claws; the left crab's left claw is fully raised with a U-shaped opening, while the right crab's left claw is partially lowered. Each crab has four small white-and-orange striped legs. The image uses a limited color palette of orange, gray, black, and white with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated orange crab icons with raised claws, small black eyes, and white mouth details on a gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware

Metadata Only Entities

  • My-Buddy-Icons
  • mybuddy4
  • 082

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange crab animated
  • gray background crab
  • raised and lowered claws
  • pixelated crab mouth
  • striped crab legs
  • U-shaped crab claw
  • crab animation
  • crab side-by-side

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 082
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • crab

Wordwall

  • orange crab
  • gray background
  • raised claws
  • small black eyes
  • white mouth
  • striped legs
  • pixelated
  • side-by-side
  • U-shaped claw
  • partially lowered claw
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:26 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)
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Full source records (1)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
082
Archive entry
082.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
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