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Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font.

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Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font.

Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and patterns.

Composition

  • text and patterns
  • repeated elements
  • four corners

Dense Caption

Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font. Yellow square patterns appear in four corners of the image. Text "dancing" appears twice in the top row and twice in the middle row. Text "robots" appears twice in the middle row and twice in the bottom row. The yellow square patterns are identical in all four corners. The text is rendered in a pixelated font with black color. The background is solid brown.

Description

  • Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dancing robots
  • brown background yellow patterns
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • buddy icons
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • text and patterns are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • dancing
  • robots

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • yellow square patterns
  • black text
  • dancing text
  • robots text
  • pixelated font
  • four corners
  • text repeats
  • solid color background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824132250180427005
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/cc19b81f2b87eb7838ea4f1044d12a098abeaa6c6e4d02dacfbbf5c1a0335679.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
cc19b81f2b87eb78
SHA-256
cc19b81f2b87eb7838ea4f1044d12a098abeaa6c6e4d02dacfbbf5c1a0335679
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.138389

OpenAI category scores

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

Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,703 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 725

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • square patterns (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • dancing (subject, 0.80)
  • robots (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dancing

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with repeated text and patterns.

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • text and patterns
  • repeated elements
  • four corners

Dense Caption

Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font. Yellow square patterns appear in four corners of the image. Text "dancing" appears twice in the top row and twice in the middle row. Text "robots" appears twice in the middle row and twice in the bottom row. The yellow square patterns are identical in all four corners. The text is rendered in a pixelated font with black color. The background is solid brown.

Description

  • Brown background with yellow square patterns and black text reading "dancing" and "robots" in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dancing robots
  • brown background yellow patterns
  • pixelated text
  • repeated text
  • buddy icons
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • aim

Objects

  • square patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • text and patterns are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • dancing
  • robots

Visible Text

  • dancing
  • robots

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • yellow square patterns
  • black text
  • dancing text
  • robots text
  • pixelated font
  • four corners
  • text repeats
  • solid color background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:52 UTC
Run
52
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
20070824132250180427005
Archive entry
20070824132250180427005.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070824132250180427005.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824132250180427005.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016