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A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right

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A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right

A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right. Animated 50×50…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • head turns from left to right

Animation Summary

  • The bird's head turns from left to right across the four , with text overlays 'THE BIRD', 'IS', and 'THE WORD' in specific

Composition

  • four
  • text in top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • bird in all
  • bird's head position changes

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid with a yellow bird on a blue and brown background. Top-left panel: 'THE BIRD' in white text on black background. Top-right panel: 'IS' in white text on black background, bird's head turned right. Bottom-left panel: 'THE WORD' in white text on black background. Bottom-right panel: bird's head turned right, no text. Bird is yellow with brown accents, standing on a blue surface with a brown backdrop. Text is bold, pixelated, and black with white letters. The bird's head turns from left to right between panels.

Description

A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow bird text
  • bird head turning text
  • the bird is the word
  • pixelated bird animation
  • four bird text
  • bird head turned right
  • text the bird is the word
  • yellow bird blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right panel.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The bird's head turns from left to right across the four panels, with text overlays 'THE BIRD', 'IS', and 'THE WORD' in specific panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: bird in all panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel bird text
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow bird text grid

Style

  • text overlay

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS
  • THE WORD

Wordwall

  • yellow bird
  • blue background
  • brown backdrop
  • text 'THE BIRD'
  • text 'IS'
  • text 'THE WORD'
  • head turned right
  • pixelated text
  • four
  • bird standing
  • yellow feathers
  • brown accents
  • black text boxes
  • white letters
  • blue surface
  • brown vertical lines
  • bird's beak visible
  • bird's eyes visible
  • bird's feet visible
  • bird's wings visible
  • bird's body shape
  • bird's posture
  • bird's expression neutral
  • bird's head turned right
  • bird's head turned left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081122165902636224729
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a99b92a78a2d8f0fe2be5f9bf4c84f7af5446535a877b3510947e9334519a69c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
a99b92a78a2d8f0f
SHA-256
a99b92a78a2d8f0fe2be5f9bf4c84f7af5446535a877b3510947e9334519a69c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089930

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918994onnx/unsafe0.089930onnx/nsfl0.044971onnx/nsfw0.044959
Enrichment records (1)
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A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,594 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 945

Review tags

  • head turning (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • head turns from left to right (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • head turning

Animation

  • head turns from left to right

Animation Summary

  • The bird's head turns from left to right across the four , with text overlays 'THE BIRD', 'IS', and 'THE WORD' in specific

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • text in top-left, top-right, bottom-left
  • bird in all
  • bird's head position changes

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid with a yellow bird on a blue and brown background. Top-left panel: 'THE BIRD' in white text on black background. Top-right panel: 'IS' in white text on black background, bird's head turned right. Bottom-left panel: 'THE WORD' in white text on black background. Bottom-right panel: bird's head turned right, no text. Bird is yellow with brown accents, standing on a blue surface with a brown backdrop. Text is bold, pixelated, and black with white letters. The bird's head turns from left to right between panels.

Description

A four- shows a yellow bird with text overlays: 'THE BIRD' top-left, 'IS' top-right, 'THE WORD' bottom-left, and the bird's head turning right in the bottom-right

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow bird text
  • bird head turning text
  • the bird is the word
  • pixelated bird animation
  • four bird text
  • bird head turned right
  • text the bird is the word
  • yellow bird blue background

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: The bird's head turns from left to right across the four panels, with text overlays 'THE BIRD', 'IS', and 'THE WORD' in specific panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: bird in all panels
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel bird text
  • quarantined retrieval: yellow bird text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • bird

Visible Text

  • THE BIRD
  • IS
  • THE WORD

Wordwall

  • yellow bird
  • blue background
  • brown backdrop
  • text 'THE BIRD'
  • text 'IS'
  • text 'THE WORD'
  • head turned right
  • pixelated text
  • four
  • bird standing
  • yellow feathers
  • brown accents
  • black text boxes
  • white letters
  • blue surface
  • brown vertical lines
  • bird's beak visible
  • bird's eyes visible
  • bird's feet visible
  • bird's wings visible
  • bird's body shape
  • bird's posture
  • bird's expression neutral
  • bird's head turned right
  • bird's head turned left
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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
20081122165902636224729
Archive entry
20081122165902636224729.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081122165902636224729.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081122165902636224729.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016