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Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right.

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Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right.

Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text on left, dog on right
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Left side displays pixelated black-and-white text reading 'Duck and cover!'. Right side shows a light-colored dog with a small red bow on its head. The dog holds a brown cigar in its mouth, has dark eyes and nose, and wears a white collar with a metallic tag. Background is plain white.

Description

  • Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • duck and cover dog
  • cigar holding dog
  • red bow dog
  • pixelated text dog icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Duck and cover!

Visually Supported Entities

  • dog

Wordwall

  • text: Duck and cover!
  • dog
  • red bow
  • cigar
  • white collar
  • metallic tag
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803111439111396377948
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/91cd64fffc85dcae0e2e2b2d287a51de11acd7cad4c697e9c4c5d249d0dd25ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
91cd64fffc85dcae
SHA-256
91cd64fffc85dcae0e2e2b2d287a51de11acd7cad4c697e9c4c5d249d0dd25ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.110073

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:19 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,971 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 623

Review tags

  • holding cigar (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • bow (object, 0.80)
  • cigar (object, 0.80)
  • collar (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dog (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding cigar

Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • text on left, dog on right
  • centered composition

Dense Caption

Left side displays pixelated black-and-white text reading 'Duck and cover!'. Right side shows a light-colored dog with a small red bow on its head. The dog holds a brown cigar in its mouth, has dark eyes and nose, and wears a white collar with a metallic tag. Background is plain white.

Description

  • Pixelated image with text 'Duck and cover!' on left, light-colored dog wearing red bow holding cigar in mouth on right.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • duck and cover dog
  • cigar holding dog
  • red bow dog
  • pixelated text dog icon

Objects

  • cigar
  • bow
  • collar
  • tag

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • dog

Visible Text

  • Duck and cover!

Visually Supported Entities

  • dog

Wordwall

  • text: Duck and cover!
  • dog
  • red bow
  • cigar
  • white collar
  • metallic tag
  • pixelated text
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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
200803111439111396377948
Archive entry
200803111439111396377948.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803111439111396377948.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803111439111396377948.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016