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Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text , and abstract symbols on a white background

Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text , and abstract symbols on a white background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text top-left
  • characters top-right
  • symbols bottom-left
  • gray rectangle right

Dense Caption

Black text panel top-left reads "WELCOME TO BC SELLER short" in pixelated font. Two cartoon characters: left has pink hair, yellow top, gray pants; right has dark hair, yellow top, dark skirt. Both have speech bubbles. Bottom-left has abstract black symbols: square with dots, curved lines, and angular shapes. Background is white with a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text , and abstract symbols on a white background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20100602144358846644988
  • 2010060214440543704010

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink hair yellow top cartoon
  • black text speech bubbles
  • abstract symbols white background
  • gray rectangle cartoon characters

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text panel, and abstract symbols on a white background.
  • quarantined wordwall: black text panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: text panel top-left
  • quarantined retrieval: black text panel speech bubbles

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: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • WELCOME
  • TO BC
  • SELLER
  • short

Wordwall

  • pink hair
  • yellow top
  • gray pants
  • dark hair
  • dark skirt
  • speech bubbles
  • black text
  • abstract symbols
  • white background
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100602144358846644988
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2010060214440543704010
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9d/9dd2509314dc3fb5c8564cc8b09111d45845a6bbf703fc688bef2a85556a8845.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
9dd2509314dc3fb5
SHA-256
9dd2509314dc3fb5c8564cc8b09111d45845a6bbf703fc688bef2a85556a8845
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126602

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934972onnx/unsafe0.126602onnx/nsfw0.082015onnx/nsfl0.044586
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text , and abstract symbols on a white background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,891 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,206, response 722

Review tags

  • characters holding speech bubbles (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • informal (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • speech bubbles (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • two cartoon characters (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • characters holding speech bubbles

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • text top-left
  • characters top-right
  • symbols bottom-left
  • gray rectangle right

Dense Caption

Black text panel top-left reads "WELCOME TO BC SELLER short" in pixelated font. Two cartoon characters: left has pink hair, yellow top, gray pants; right has dark hair, yellow top, dark skirt. Both have speech bubbles. Bottom-left has abstract black symbols: square with dots, curved lines, and angular shapes. Background is white with a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text , and abstract symbols on a white background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20100602144358846644988
  • 2010060214440543704010

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • informal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink hair yellow top cartoon
  • black text speech bubbles
  • abstract symbols white background
  • gray rectangle cartoon characters

Objects

  • speech bubbles
  • text
  • abstract symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Pixelated cartoon characters with speech bubbles, a black text panel, and abstract symbols on a white background.
  • quarantined wordwall: black text panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: text panel top-left
  • quarantined retrieval: black text panel speech bubbles

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: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • two cartoon characters
  • abstract symbols

Visible Text

  • WELCOME
  • TO BC
  • SELLER
  • short

Wordwall

  • pink hair
  • yellow top
  • gray pants
  • dark hair
  • dark skirt
  • speech bubbles
  • black text
  • abstract symbols
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:47 UTC
Run
61
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 (4)
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Full source records (2)
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
20100602144358846644988
Archive entry
20100602144358846644988.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100602144358846644988.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100602144358846644988.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 
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
2010060214440543704010
Archive entry
2010060214440543704010.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#2010060214440543704010.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2010060214440543704010.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016