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Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'.

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Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'.

Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal arrangement of pencils below text
  • text centered above pencils
  • plain white background

Dense Caption

Multicolored pixelated text reads 'be colorful' in blue, green, purple, and brown letters. Below the text, a horizontal arrangement of colored pencils displays various hues including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and brown. One pencil has white text reading 'welcome'. The background is plain white with no additional elements or borders.

Description

  • Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810251708062031070176

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be colorful colored pencils welcome
  • multicolored text red pencil yellow pencil
  • pixelated 'welcome' label on pencil
  • colored pencils row white background

Visible Text

  • be colorful
  • welcome

Wordwall

  • multicolored pixelated text
  • 'be colorful' phrase
  • colored pencils row
  • red pencil
  • orange pencil
  • yellow pencil
  • green pencil
  • blue pencil
  • purple pencil
  • brown pencil
  • 'welcome' label on one pencil

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810251708062031070176
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cb/cbd6a071e67cbbc9505cf0a295812147dac441f1e91ce064d38a4e91ac2f929d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
cbd6a071e67cbbc9
SHA-256
cbd6a071e67cbbc9505cf0a295812147dac441f1e91ce064d38a4e91ac2f929d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113228

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,405 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 655

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pencils (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • multicolored (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • colored pencils (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • brown
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • horizontal arrangement of pencils below text
  • text centered above pencils
  • plain white background

Dense Caption

Multicolored pixelated text reads 'be colorful' in blue, green, purple, and brown letters. Below the text, a horizontal arrangement of colored pencils displays various hues including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and brown. One pencil has white text reading 'welcome'. The background is plain white with no additional elements or borders.

Description

  • Pixelated image with multicolored text 'be colorful' above a row of colored pencils, one labeled 'welcome'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200810251708062031070176

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • be colorful colored pencils welcome
  • multicolored text red pencil yellow pencil
  • pixelated 'welcome' label on pencil
  • colored pencils row white background

Objects

  • pencils

Style

  • pixelated
  • multicolored
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • text
  • colored pencils

Visible Text

  • be colorful
  • welcome

Wordwall

  • multicolored pixelated text
  • 'be colorful' phrase
  • colored pencils row
  • red pencil
  • orange pencil
  • yellow pencil
  • green pencil
  • blue pencil
  • purple pencil
  • brown pencil
  • 'welcome' label on one pencil
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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
200810251708062031070176
Archive entry
200810251708062031070176.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810251708062031070176.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810251708062031070176.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016