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Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background.

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Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background.

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top center
  • microphone left
  • bird-like figure right
  • text bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' in black block letters at top center. Below left, a gray microphone with dark base and light blue shaft. Below right, a bird-like figure with yellow head, orange body, and red accents. Text 'DINGLHOPER' in black block letters spans bottom. Background is light gradient from pale blue to off-white. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • microphone bird text 'It's a'
  • pixel art 'DINGLHOPER' text
  • yellow orange red bird
  • gray microphone light background

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • It's a
  • DINGLHOPER

Wordwall

  • text 'It's a'
  • text 'DINGLHOPER'
  • gray microphone
  • yellow head
  • orange body
  • red accents
  • light gradient background
  • pixel art
  • black block letters
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071123145715224927180
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c74f50efae882136d789e439db6fe418c73b24ff54d1dd13a4b99d64f43943f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
9c74f50efae88213
SHA-256
9c74f50efae882136d789e439db6fe418c73b24ff54d1dd13a4b99d64f43943f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079050

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920950onnx/unsafe0.079050onnx/nsfw0.044016onnx/nsfl0.035034
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,556 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • bird like figure (subject, 0.80)
  • microphone (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • black
  • light blue
  • off-white

Composition

  • text top center
  • microphone left
  • bird-like figure right
  • text bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' in black block letters at top center. Below left, a gray microphone with dark base and light blue shaft. Below right, a bird-like figure with yellow head, orange body, and red accents. Text 'DINGLHOPER' in black block letters spans bottom. Background is light gradient from pale blue to off-white. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

Pixelated static image with text 'It's a' above a gray microphone and 'DINGLHOPER' below a colorful bird-like figure against a light gradient background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • microphone bird text 'It's a'
  • pixel art 'DINGLHOPER' text
  • yellow orange red bird
  • gray microphone light background

Objects

  • microphone
  • bird-like figure

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • microphone
  • bird-like figure

Visible Text

  • It's a
  • DINGLHOPER

Wordwall

  • text 'It's a'
  • text 'DINGLHOPER'
  • gray microphone
  • yellow head
  • orange body
  • red accents
  • light gradient background
  • pixel art
  • black block letters
  • dithering
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:14 UTC
Run
53
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
20071123145715224927180
Archive entry
20071123145715224927180.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071123145715224927180.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071123145715224927180.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016