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Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames.

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Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames.

Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between frames: 'markers' and 'wanna-be' appear in the first frame, while 'are just' and 'crayons. :]'.

Composition

  • stacked horizontally
  • text overlaid

Dense Caption

Stack of six horizontally aligned markers and crayons in orange, yellow, green, purple, orange, yellow from top to bottom. Each marker/crayon has a colored body with a darker tip and a visible brand name. Text overlays change across frames: first frame shows 'markers' and 'wanna-be', second frame shows 'are just' and 'crayons. :]'. The text is white with black outlines, positioned over the middle markers. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style.

Description

  • Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames.

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

  • markers crayons text change
  • wanna-be crayons
  • crayons text
  • markers are just
  • text overlays markers
  • crayons smiley
  • low-resolution markers
  • stacked markers text

Visible Text

  • markers
  • are just
  • wanna-be
  • crayons. :]

Wordwall

  • stack of markers and crayons
  • orange yellow green purple orange yellow
  • text overlays change
  • white text with black outlines
  • pixelated low-resolution
  • six items in stack
  • brand names visible on markers
  • crayons. :] text
  • wanna-be text
  • markers text
  • are just text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806281255291909440434
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba58969d3e68e596c3a8177ee27c04125d02a9f10b21fe2a1e12419e4a89a727.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
ba58969d3e68e596
SHA-256
ba58969d3e68e596c3a8177ee27c04125d02a9f10b21fe2a1e12419e4a89a727
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097134

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,408 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 715

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • stack (object, 0.80)
  • text changes between frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • crayons (subject, 0.80)
  • markers (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between frames: 'markers' and 'wanna-be' appear in the first frame, while 'are just' and 'crayons. :]'.

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • purple

Composition

  • stacked horizontally
  • text overlaid

Dense Caption

Stack of six horizontally aligned markers and crayons in orange, yellow, green, purple, orange, yellow from top to bottom. Each marker/crayon has a colored body with a darker tip and a visible brand name. Text overlays change across frames: first frame shows 'markers' and 'wanna-be', second frame shows 'are just' and 'crayons. :]'. The text is white with black outlines, positioned over the middle markers. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style.

Description

  • Stack of colored markers and crayons with overlaid text changing across frames.

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

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • markers crayons text change
  • wanna-be crayons
  • crayons text
  • markers are just
  • text overlays markers
  • crayons smiley
  • low-resolution markers
  • stacked markers text

Objects

  • stack

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • markers
  • crayons

Visible Text

  • markers
  • are just
  • wanna-be
  • crayons. :]

Wordwall

  • stack of markers and crayons
  • orange yellow green purple orange yellow
  • text overlays change
  • white text with black outlines
  • pixelated low-resolution
  • six items in stack
  • brand names visible on markers
  • crayons. :] text
  • wanna-be text
  • markers text
  • are just text
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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
200806281255291909440434
Archive entry
200806281255291909440434.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806281255291909440434.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806281255291909440434.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016