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Animated scene with a figure holding balloons and text changing across frames.

Animated scene with a figure holding balloons and 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 sequentially: 'letting go.' → 'it keeps us moving' → 'forward'
  • no character movement

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'letting go.' to 'it keeps us moving' to 'forward', with no character movement.

Composition

  • central figure
  • text overlay
  • static background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a stylized outdoor scene with a figure in green clothing holding colorful balloons (blue, red, yellow, purple) against a light sky background. The figure stands on a gray platform with brown trim. Text changes sequentially: first 'letting go.', then 'it keeps us moving', and finally 'forward'. Each frame shows the same static background and character pose; only the overlaid text differs between frames.

Description

  • Animated scene with a figure holding balloons and 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • balloons figure text change
  • green clothing sky platform
  • blue red yellow purple balloons
  • text sequence letting go it keeps us moving forward

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • letting go.
  • it keeps us moving
  • forward

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure
  • balloons

Wordwall

  • balloons
  • blue red yellow purple
  • green clothing
  • gray platform
  • light sky
  • text changes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071113120846177406699
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bd475e492d21a49d812e1603076dcf241cde8fcdfe1329282dd0c4752443dbfd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
bd475e492d21a49d
SHA-256
bd475e492d21a49d812e1603076dcf241cde8fcdfe1329282dd0c4752443dbfd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078769

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929582onnx/unsafe0.078769onnx/nsfl0.044754onnx/nsfw0.034015
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated scene with a figure holding balloons and text changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:03 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,917 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 632

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • hopeful (mood, 0.80)
  • uplifting (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • balloons (subject, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Animation

  • text changes sequentially: 'letting go.' → 'it keeps us moving' → 'forward'
  • no character movement

Animation Summary

  • Text changes sequentially from 'letting go.' to 'it keeps us moving' to 'forward', with no character movement.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • yellow
  • purple
  • green
  • gray
  • brown
  • light sky

Composition

  • central figure
  • text overlay
  • static background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a stylized outdoor scene with a figure in green clothing holding colorful balloons (blue, red, yellow, purple) against a light sky background. The figure stands on a gray platform with brown trim. Text changes sequentially: first 'letting go.', then 'it keeps us moving', and finally 'forward'. Each frame shows the same static background and character pose; only the overlaid text differs between frames.

Description

  • Animated scene with a figure holding balloons and 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

Mood

  • uplifting
  • hopeful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • balloons figure text change
  • green clothing sky platform
  • blue red yellow purple balloons
  • text sequence letting go it keeps us moving forward

Objects

  • balloons

Style

  • stylized
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure
  • balloons

Visible Text

  • letting go.
  • it keeps us moving
  • forward

Visually Supported Entities

  • figure
  • balloons

Wordwall

  • balloons
  • blue red yellow purple
  • green clothing
  • gray platform
  • light sky
  • text changes
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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
20071113120846177406699
Archive entry
20071113120846177406699.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#20071113120846177406699.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071113120846177406699.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016