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Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene.

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Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene.

Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text overlaid on scenes

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated scenes. Top-left: a blue car with a black roof and front bumper, overlaid with 'Hello' in white text with black outline. Top-right: a cartoon scene with a white bird, gray and brown animals, red and blue flowers on green grass, overlaid with 'Liam' in white text with black outline. Bottom-left: a character with green hair and blue dress in a yellow field with orange flowers, overlaid with 'ROX' in white text with black outline. Bottom-right: solid gray background. All text is bold, sans-serif, and centered over the scenes.

Description

  • Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene.

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

  • blue car hello
  • cartoon bird liam
  • green hair rox
  • pixelated text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • car
  • bird

Visible Text

  • Hello
  • Liam
  • ROX

Wordwall

  • blue car
  • white text 'Hello'
  • cartoon bird
  • gray and brown animals
  • red flowers
  • blue flowers
  • green grass
  • white text 'Liam'
  • green hair character
  • blue dress
  • yellow field
  • orange flowers
  • white text 'ROX'
  • solid gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100221185841506075309
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ca/ca412ac58232bb5f58dc1e82ce4c6fbacf032924846d388fff50729aa3c4ab29.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
ca412ac58232bb5f
SHA-256
ca412ac58232bb5f58dc1e82ce4c6fbacf032924846d388fff50729aa3c4ab29
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 02:11 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000614

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083303

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,964 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 742

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dress (object, 0.80)
  • field (object, 0.80)
  • flowers (object, 0.80)
  • grass (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • animals (subject, 0.80)
  • bird (subject, 0.80)
  • car (subject, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • text overlaid on scenes

Dense Caption

The image is a 2x2 grid of pixelated scenes. Top-left: a blue car with a black roof and front bumper, overlaid with 'Hello' in white text with black outline. Top-right: a cartoon scene with a white bird, gray and brown animals, red and blue flowers on green grass, overlaid with 'Liam' in white text with black outline. Bottom-left: a character with green hair and blue dress in a yellow field with orange flowers, overlaid with 'ROX' in white text with black outline. Bottom-right: solid gray background. All text is bold, sans-serif, and centered over the scenes.

Description

  • Pixelated image with text overlays: 'Hello' over a car, 'Liam' over a cartoon scene, and 'ROX' over a character scene.

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

  • blue car hello
  • cartoon bird liam
  • green hair rox
  • pixelated text overlays

Objects

  • flowers
  • grass
  • field
  • dress

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • car
  • bird
  • animals
  • character

Visible Text

  • Hello
  • Liam
  • ROX

Wordwall

  • blue car
  • white text 'Hello'
  • cartoon bird
  • gray and brown animals
  • red flowers
  • blue flowers
  • green grass
  • white text 'Liam'
  • green hair character
  • blue dress
  • yellow field
  • orange flowers
  • white text 'ROX'
  • solid gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:14 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)
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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
20100221185841506075309
Archive entry
20100221185841506075309.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#20100221185841506075309.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100221185841506075309.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016