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A four- shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing

A four- shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-200…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes
  • expression changes

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change from "Love" to "YOU 10/23/09" while facial expressions shift between neutral and smiling

Composition

  • four
  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid with a person having brown hair and a light skin tone. The top-left panel shows the person with a neutral expression and a blue vertical bar on the left edge. The top-right panel shows the person with a slight smile and the word "Love" in blue text with white outline. The bottom-left panel shows the person with a wider smile. The bottom-right panel shows the person with a neutral expression and the text "YOU 10/23/09" in blue text with white outline. All panels share the same background and lighting.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 201002171409121325655809
  • 10/23/09

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair smiling person
  • blue text Love
  • blue text YOU 10/23/09
  • four
  • pixelated
  • text overlay animation
  • smiling neutral expression
  • 10/23/09 date text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing across panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change from "Love" to "YOU 10/23/09" while facial expressions shift between neutral and smiling across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

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

Visible Text

  • Love
  • YOU 10/23/09

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • blue text
  • white outline
  • four
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • text overlays
  • 10/23/09
  • Love

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201002171409121325655809
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b68a3f788505e75e0a05ee3918f04fb80a66579782daa3c79c74c149bcdd0eed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
b68a3f788505e75e
SHA-256
b68a3f788505e75e0a05ee3918f04fb80a66579782daa3c79c74c149bcdd0eed
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077897

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A four- shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,768 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 896

Review tags

  • neutral expression (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • blue text (object, 0.80)
  • white outline (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling
  • neutral expression

Animation

  • text changes
  • expression changes

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change from "Love" to "YOU 10/23/09" while facial expressions shift between neutral and smiling

Colors

  • brown
  • light skin
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • central subject
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel grid with a person having brown hair and a light skin tone. The top-left panel shows the person with a neutral expression and a blue vertical bar on the left edge. The top-right panel shows the person with a slight smile and the word "Love" in blue text with white outline. The bottom-left panel shows the person with a wider smile. The bottom-right panel shows the person with a neutral expression and the text "YOU 10/23/09" in blue text with white outline. All panels share the same background and lighting.

Description

  • A four- shows a person with brown hair smiling, with blue text overlays changing

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 201002171409121325655809
  • 10/23/09

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • friendly
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hair smiling person
  • blue text Love
  • blue text YOU 10/23/09
  • four
  • pixelated
  • text overlay animation
  • smiling neutral expression
  • 10/23/09 date text

Objects

  • blue text
  • white outline

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
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  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change from "Love" to "YOU 10/23/09" while facial expressions shift between neutral and smiling across panels.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

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

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • Love
  • YOU 10/23/09

Wordwall

  • brown hair
  • light skin tone
  • blue text
  • white outline
  • four
  • smiling
  • neutral expression
  • text overlays
  • 10/23/09
  • Love
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:12 UTC
Run
61
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
201002171409121325655809
Archive entry
201002171409121325655809.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201002171409121325655809.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201002171409121325655809.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016