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A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes.

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A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes.

A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • text changes from "I ask for staples." to "Yet i get" with three dots

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "I ask for staples." to "Yet i get" with three dots while paperclips remain static.

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of six rainbow-colored paperclips (red, pink, green, yellow, blue) arranged horizontally against a white background. Above the paperclips, text reads "I ask for staples." in black, pixelated font. Below the paperclips, text reads "Rainbow Paperclips" in black, pixelated font. In the rightmost panel, the text above changes to "Yet i get" with three dots following the paperclips, while the paperclips remain unchanged.

Description

  • A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709021951481676893200

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow paperclips text change
  • staples paperclips
  • yet i get paperclips
  • rainbow paperclips humor
  • text above paperclips
  • text below paperclips
  • pixelated paperclips
  • six rainbow paperclips

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row

Visible Text

  • I ask for staples.
  • Yet i get
  • Rainbow Paperclips

Wordwall

  • rainbow paperclips
  • six paperclips
  • red paperclip
  • pink paperclip
  • green paperclip
  • yellow paperclip
  • blue paperclip
  • white background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • text above paperclips
  • text below paperclips
  • I ask for staples
  • Yet i get
  • three dots
  • static image
  • text change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709021951481676893200
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2035b5aa3cc43f3fbda44ff4afc8f9a407aec230de002a6b42b747fc4f08c7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
a2035b5aa3cc43f3
SHA-256
a2035b5aa3cc43f3fbda44ff4afc8f9a407aec230de002a6b42b747fc4f08c7b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085271

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923263onnx/unsafe0.085271onnx/nsfw0.049521onnx/nsfl0.035749
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,482 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 845

Review tags

  • text change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • paperclips (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • text changes from "I ask for staples." to "Yet i get" with three dots

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "I ask for staples." to "Yet i get" with three dots while paperclips remain static.

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text above and below

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of six rainbow-colored paperclips (red, pink, green, yellow, blue) arranged horizontally against a white background. Above the paperclips, text reads "I ask for staples." in black, pixelated font. Below the paperclips, text reads "Rainbow Paperclips" in black, pixelated font. In the rightmost panel, the text above changes to "Yet i get" with three dots following the paperclips, while the paperclips remain unchanged.

Description

  • A static image of rainbow-colored paperclips with text above and below, showing a sequence of text changes.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709021951481676893200

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow paperclips text change
  • staples paperclips
  • yet i get paperclips
  • rainbow paperclips humor
  • text above paperclips
  • text below paperclips
  • pixelated paperclips
  • six rainbow paperclips

Objects

  • paperclips

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: horizontal row

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • paperclips

Visible Text

  • I ask for staples.
  • Yet i get
  • Rainbow Paperclips

Wordwall

  • rainbow paperclips
  • six paperclips
  • red paperclip
  • pink paperclip
  • green paperclip
  • yellow paperclip
  • blue paperclip
  • white background
  • black text
  • pixelated font
  • text above paperclips
  • text below paperclips
  • I ask for staples
  • Yet i get
  • three dots
  • static image
  • text change
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:01 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)
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
200709021951481676893200
Archive entry
200709021951481676893200.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709021951481676893200.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709021951481676893200.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016