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Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees.

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Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees.

Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • consistent pose across frames
  • background elements consistent

Animation Summary

  • Figure maintains consistent walking pose and background elements across frames; bottom-right frame replaces background with solid gray.

Composition

  • central figure
  • background elements
  • partial background in bottom-left
  • solid gray in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Yellow stick figure with black outline, head round, arms bent, legs in walking pose, holding striped object. Background includes light gray building with dark square window, green trees, blue sky. Top-left and top-right frames show full background; bottom-left frame shows partial background; bottom-right frame is solid gray. Figure's pose and background details consistent across visible frames.

Description

  • Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080907074655921035967

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure walking
  • striped object
  • light gray building
  • blue sky
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated animation
  • buddy icon
  • cartoonish style

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 3 shows partial background
  • frame 4 shows solid gray background

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • black outline
  • walking pose
  • striped object
  • light gray building
  • dark square window
  • green trees
  • blue sky
  • partial background
  • solid gray frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080907074655921035967
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a1/a14d144d236e436b968e2c7da87328961205bc002883848cb8b8fd59977bdbff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
a14d144d236e436b
SHA-256
a14d144d236e436b968e2c7da87328961205bc002883848cb8b8fd59977bdbff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080302

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919698onnx/unsafe0.080302onnx/nsfw0.044441onnx/nsfl0.035861
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Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,834 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 809

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • walking (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark square (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • striped object (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • yellow stick figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • walking
  • holding

Animation

  • consistent pose across frames
  • background elements consistent

Animation Summary

  • Figure maintains consistent walking pose and background elements across frames; bottom-right frame replaces background with solid gray.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • light gray
  • dark square
  • green
  • blue
  • solid gray

Composition

  • central figure
  • background elements
  • partial background in bottom-left
  • solid gray in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Yellow stick figure with black outline, head round, arms bent, legs in walking pose, holding striped object. Background includes light gray building with dark square window, green trees, blue sky. Top-left and top-right frames show full background; bottom-left frame shows partial background; bottom-right frame is solid gray. Figure's pose and background details consistent across visible frames.

Description

  • Yellow stick figure with black outline walking left to right, holding a striped object, against a background of buildings and trees.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080907074655921035967

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow stick figure walking
  • striped object
  • light gray building
  • blue sky
  • solid gray background
  • pixelated animation
  • buddy icon
  • cartoonish style

Objects

  • striped object

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 3 shows partial background
  • frame 4 shows solid gray background

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • yellow stick figure

Wordwall

  • yellow stick figure
  • black outline
  • walking pose
  • striped object
  • light gray building
  • dark square window
  • green trees
  • blue sky
  • partial background
  • solid gray frame
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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
20080907074655921035967
Archive entry
20080907074655921035967.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080907074655921035967.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080907074655921035967.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016