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A person holds a large brown cardboard sign with handwritten text, standing outdoors with blurred background elements.

A person holds a large brown cardboard sign with handwritten text, standing outdoors with blurred background elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • person centered
  • sign dominates foreground

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and a dark top holds a large rectangular brown cardboard sign with handwritten text. The sign's text is partially legible: 'I AM NOT A FAN OF THE', 'FIGHTING', 'BUT I AM A FAN OF', 'THE FIGHT'. The background shows blurred green foliage and a light-colored vertical structure. The image has low resolution and pixelation.

Description

  • A person holds a large brown cardboard sign with handwritten text, standing outdoors with blurred background elements.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070803105735403278922

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding cardboard sign
  • handwritten sign text
  • outdoor sign
  • low resolution sign image

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelation

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • I AM NOT A FAN OF THE
  • FIGHTING
  • BUT I AM A FAN OF
  • THE FIGHT

Wordwall

  • brown cardboard sign
  • handwritten text
  • partially legible text
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred background
  • low resolution
  • person holding sign
  • dark hair
  • dark clothing

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070803105735403278922
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/cc88f1af38e016388e209fca546d6abf504ff3db34bc48a49eebaae0b91ca034.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
cc88f1af38e01638
SHA-256
cc88f1af38e016388e209fca546d6abf504ff3db34bc48a49eebaae0b91ca034
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
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Overall score
0.069109

OpenAI category scores

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

A person holds a large brown cardboard sign with handwritten text, standing outdoors with blurred background elements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,127 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 786

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  • light (color, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • dark
  • green
  • light

Composition

  • person centered
  • sign dominates foreground

Dense Caption

A person with dark hair and a dark top holds a large rectangular brown cardboard sign with handwritten text. The sign's text is partially legible: 'I AM NOT A FAN OF THE', 'FIGHTING', 'BUT I AM A FAN OF', 'THE FIGHT'. The background shows blurred green foliage and a light-colored vertical structure. The image has low resolution and pixelation.

Description

  • A person holds a large brown cardboard sign with handwritten text, standing outdoors with blurred background elements.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070803105735403278922

Mood

  • neutral

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  • handwritten sign text
  • outdoor sign
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Preprocessing Notes

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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • low-resolution

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  • I AM NOT A FAN OF THE
  • FIGHTING
  • BUT I AM A FAN OF
  • THE FIGHT

Wordwall

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  • handwritten text
  • partially legible text
  • outdoor setting
  • blurred background
  • low resolution
  • person holding sign
  • dark hair
  • dark clothing
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:17 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)
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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
20070803105735403278922
Archive entry
20070803105735403278922.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070803105735403278922.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070803105735403278922.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016