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Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text

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Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • duck left
  • text right
  • stacked text
  • centered duck
  • text aligned right

Dense Caption

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background; duck is positioned left of center, facing right, with one wing raised. Blue background panel on right side contains cyan pixelated text reading "rubber ducks are my heroes" in stacked lines. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. Duck has smooth rounded body, visible shadow beneath. Background is light gray with subtle gradient. No animation observed.

Description

  • Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080302153031939158648

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rubber duck cyan text
  • yellow duck blue background
  • pixelated rubber ducks text
  • text rubber ducks my heroes
  • blue yellow duck
  • cyan text blue background
  • rubber ducks are my heroes
  • yellow duck orange beak

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue panel with cyan pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: blue panel
  • quarantined retrieval: blue panel yellow duck

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Visible Text

  • rubber ducks are my heroes

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • orange beak
  • blue eye
  • light background
  • blue
  • cyan text
  • rubber ducks are my heroes
  • pixelated font
  • wing raised
  • smooth body
  • shadow beneath
  • stacked text
  • retro digital
  • blocky font
  • text on blue
  • left of center
  • facing right
  • one wing raised
  • light gray gradient
  • no animation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080302153031939158648
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bbdae8629b0182b8532e86eba35c6b303d134d8d94c7f8d190493fa3bcd742d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
bbdae8629b0182b8
SHA-256
bbdae8629b0182b8532e86eba35c6b303d134d8d94c7f8d190493fa3bcd742d7
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 21:10 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000507

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114298

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,907 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 776

Review tags

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  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • rubber duck (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange
  • blue
  • cyan
  • light gray

Composition

  • left-right split
  • duck left
  • text right
  • stacked text
  • centered duck
  • text aligned right

Dense Caption

Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background; duck is positioned left of center, facing right, with one wing raised. Blue background panel on right side contains cyan pixelated text reading "rubber ducks are my heroes" in stacked lines. Text uses blocky, retro digital font. Duck has smooth rounded body, visible shadow beneath. Background is light gray with subtle gradient. No animation observed.

Description

  • Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue with cyan pixelated text

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080302153031939158648

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow duck blue background
  • pixelated rubber ducks text
  • text rubber ducks my heroes
  • blue yellow duck
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  • rubber ducks are my heroes
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Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • quarantined description: Yellow rubber duck with orange beak and blue eye on light background, next to blue panel with cyan pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: blue panel
  • quarantined retrieval: blue panel yellow duck

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • rubber duck

Visible Text

  • rubber ducks are my heroes

Wordwall

  • yellow rubber duck
  • orange beak
  • blue eye
  • light background
  • blue
  • cyan text
  • rubber ducks are my heroes
  • pixelated font
  • wing raised
  • smooth body
  • shadow beneath
  • stacked text
  • retro digital
  • blocky font
  • text on blue
  • left of center
  • facing right
  • one wing raised
  • light gray gradient
  • no animation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:38 UTC
Run
56
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)
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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
20080302153031939158648
Archive entry
20080302153031939158648.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080302153031939158648.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080302153031939158648.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016