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A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan.

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A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan.

A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left image, right and bottom text

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a pixelated image of a child with dark hair wearing a white short-sleeve shirt blowing dandelion seeds; the child's hand is raised near a white dandelion in a grassy field under a light blue sky. Right and bottom panels display repeated 'Caroline' text in blue pixel font on cyan background, arranged in vertical columns. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712240600022006964102

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • child dandelion blowing seeds
  • cyan background Caroline text
  • pixelated child white shirt
  • green field blue sky dandelion

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: text columns
  • quarantined composition: left panel image, right and bottom text columns

Visible Text

  • Caroline

Wordwall

  • child
  • dandelion
  • blowing seeds
  • green field
  • blue sky
  • white shirt
  • cyan background
  • repeated 'Caroline'
  • pixelated
  • text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712240600022006964102
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
a2834d5157affccb
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
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A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:22 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 674

Review tags

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Actions

  • blowing seeds

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • green
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • left image, right and bottom text

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a pixelated image of a child with dark hair wearing a white short-sleeve shirt blowing dandelion seeds; the child's hand is raised near a white dandelion in a grassy field under a light blue sky. Right and bottom panels display repeated 'Caroline' text in blue pixel font on cyan background, arranged in vertical columns. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A child in a white shirt blows dandelion seeds against a green field and blue sky background, with repeated 'Caroline' text on cyan.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712240600022006964102

Mood

  • calm
  • playful

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  • cyan background Caroline text
  • pixelated child white shirt
  • green field blue sky dandelion

Objects

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Visible Text

  • Caroline

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  • dandelion
  • blowing seeds
  • green field
  • blue sky
  • white shirt
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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
200712240600022006964102
Archive entry
200712240600022006964102.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712240600022006964102.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712240600022006964102.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016