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Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content.

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Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content.

Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two flip-flops diagonally arranged on solid background
  • text split into top-right and bottom-left sections

Dense Caption

Two beige flip-flops with dark gray outlines are positioned diagonally on a solid light orange background. The left flip-flop is slightly larger and overlaps the right one. Red pixelated text appears in two sections: 'BEWARE: this icon has a' on the top-right, and 'picture of a thong on it!' on the bottom-left. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080104203954212156373
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Named Entities

  • thong

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige flip-flops light orange background red text
  • flip-flops diagonal arrangement pixelated
  • text warning thong icon
  • retro digital font beige shoes

Visible Text

  • BEWARE: this icon has a
  • picture of a thong on it!

Visually Supported Entities

  • thong (implied by text)

Wordwall

  • beige flip-flops
  • light orange background
  • red pixelated text
  • two flip-flops
  • diagonal arrangement
  • blocky digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080104203954212156373
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b19efa16e28a7988aee9f8cd1887bfbee0f9eadad30f924f5d74b48ad20cde92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
b19efa16e28a7988
SHA-256
b19efa16e28a7988aee9f8cd1887bfbee0f9eadad30f924f5d74b48ad20cde92
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091919

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,091 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 680

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • flip flops (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • light orange
  • red
  • dark gray

Composition

  • two flip-flops diagonally arranged on solid background
  • text split into top-right and bottom-left sections

Dense Caption

Two beige flip-flops with dark gray outlines are positioned diagonally on a solid light orange background. The left flip-flop is slightly larger and overlaps the right one. Red pixelated text appears in two sections: 'BEWARE: this icon has a' on the top-right, and 'picture of a thong on it!' on the bottom-left. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of two beige flip-flops on a light orange background with red text warning about the icon's content.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080104203954212156373
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games
  • historical-archive
  • holidays
  • humor

Named Entities

  • thong

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige flip-flops light orange background red text
  • flip-flops diagonal arrangement pixelated
  • text warning thong icon
  • retro digital font beige shoes

Objects

  • flip-flops

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • flip-flops

Visible Text

  • BEWARE: this icon has a
  • picture of a thong on it!

Visually Supported Entities

  • thong (implied by text)

Wordwall

  • beige flip-flops
  • light orange background
  • red pixelated text
  • two flip-flops
  • diagonal arrangement
  • blocky digital font
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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
20080104203954212156373
Archive entry
20080104203954212156373.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080104203954212156373.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080104203954212156373.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016