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Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky.

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Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky.

Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'Summer' to 'Swag!' to no text

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from 'Summer' to 'Swag!' to no text while character and background remain static.

Composition

  • character centered
  • balloons clustered near head
  • sunset sky background
  • land silhouette at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons (pink, black, red, yellow, orange) against a sunset sky with gradient from light yellow to dark brown. The character's pose is static across observations. Text overlays change: first observation shows 'Summer' in white text on black background, second shows 'Swag!' in white text on black background, third observation shows no text overlay. Balloons are clustered near the character's head. Background features a dark silhouette of land at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Mickey Mouse

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character with balloons sunset
  • Summer Swag text change
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • buddy icon text change
  • retro digital art balloons
  • sunset sky cartoon character
  • text overlay cartoon character
  • Mickey Mouse cartoon character

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Summer
  • Swag!

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • black ears
  • red shorts
  • colorful balloons
  • sunset sky
  • yellow to brown gradient
  • text overlays
  • Summer
  • Swag!
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art
  • balloon cluster
  • land silhouette
  • no text
  • white text
  • black background
  • yellow light source
  • dark brown horizon
  • pink balloon
  • black balloon
  • red balloon
  • yellow balloon
  • orange balloon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2012062616223016585676
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a6/a6261c993ce573dd9f8c96df7b4f3298e960c501ac5559861b937a124ac898ed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
a6261c993ce573dd
SHA-256
a6261c993ce573dd9f8c96df7b4f3298e960c501ac5559861b937a124ac898ed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095619

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926784onnx/unsafe0.095619onnx/nsfw0.058859onnx/nsfl0.036761
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Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,858 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 890

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • balloons (object, 0.80)
  • land silhouette (object, 0.80)
  • sunset sky (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from 'Summer' to 'Swag!' to no text

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay changes from 'Summer' to 'Swag!' to no text while character and background remain static.

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • pink
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • dark brown

Composition

  • character centered
  • balloons clustered near head
  • sunset sky background
  • land silhouette at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons (pink, black, red, yellow, orange) against a sunset sky with gradient from light yellow to dark brown. The character's pose is static across observations. Text overlays change: first observation shows 'Summer' in white text on black background, second shows 'Swag!' in white text on black background, third observation shows no text overlay. Balloons are clustered near the character's head. Background features a dark silhouette of land at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon character with large black ears and red shorts holds multiple colorful balloons against a sunset sky.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • Mickey Mouse

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character with balloons sunset
  • Summer Swag text change
  • pixelated cartoon character
  • buddy icon text change
  • retro digital art balloons
  • sunset sky cartoon character
  • text overlay cartoon character
  • Mickey Mouse cartoon character

Objects

  • balloons
  • sunset sky
  • land silhouette

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • cartoon character

Visible Text

  • Summer
  • Swag!

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • black ears
  • red shorts
  • colorful balloons
  • sunset sky
  • yellow to brown gradient
  • text overlays
  • Summer
  • Swag!
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art
  • balloon cluster
  • land silhouette
  • no text
  • white text
  • black background
  • yellow light source
  • dark brown horizon
  • pink balloon
  • black balloon
  • red balloon
  • yellow balloon
  • orange balloon
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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
2012062616223016585676
Archive entry
2012062616223016585676.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#2012062616223016585676.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2012062616223016585676.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016