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Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background.

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Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background.

Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation

Composition

  • text above shapes
  • four shapes in horizontal row

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' spans top of image. Below, four paperclip shapes: leftmost red with pink gradient, next green with brown gradient, next yellow with green gradient, rightmost blue with light blue gradient. All paperclips have white interiors. Background is solid white. Pixelation is visible throughout. No additional text or symbols present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070826211438961692338
  • observation title (gallery): 20070826211449530490568
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070826211438961692338

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • paperclips green text
  • four colored paperclips
  • red green yellow blue paperclips
  • pixelated paperclips white background
  • green gradient paperclip
  • yellow gradient paperclip
  • blue gradient paperclip
  • red gradient paperclip

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is static

Visible Text

  • Paperclips

Wordwall

  • green pixelated text
  • 'Paperclips'
  • four paperclips
  • red paperclip
  • green paperclip
  • yellow paperclip
  • blue paperclip
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • red gradient
  • green gradient
  • yellow gradient
  • blue gradient
  • white interiors
  • solid background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070826211438961692338
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070826211449530490568
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
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cd/cd0e953cc3853797a1d4532411ccfd4bb16ed254b06a1f997c2e7d0366594d2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
cd0e953cc3853797
SHA-256
cd0e953cc3853797a1d4532411ccfd4bb16ed254b06a1f997c2e7d0366594d2a
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
sfw
Overall score
0.091896

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.908104onnx/unsafe0.091896onnx/nsfw0.059291onnx/nsfl0.032604
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,236 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,134, response 850

Review tags

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  • digital art (style, 0.80)
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  • paperclips (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • pink
  • light blue

Composition

  • text above shapes
  • four shapes in horizontal row

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' spans top of image. Below, four paperclip shapes: leftmost red with pink gradient, next green with brown gradient, next yellow with green gradient, rightmost blue with light blue gradient. All paperclips have white interiors. Background is solid white. Pixelation is visible throughout. No additional text or symbols present.

Description

  • Green pixelated text 'Paperclips' above four colored paperclip shapes in red, green, yellow, and blue on white background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20070826211438961692338
  • observation title (gallery): 20070826211449530490568
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20070826211438961692338

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons

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  • yellow gradient paperclip
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  • red gradient paperclip

Objects

  • paperclips

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is static

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital art

Subjects

  • paperclips

Visible Text

  • Paperclips

Wordwall

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  • red paperclip
  • green paperclip
  • yellow paperclip
  • blue paperclip
  • white background
  • pixelated image
  • red gradient
  • green gradient
  • yellow gradient
  • blue gradient
  • white interiors
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:15 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 (2)
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
20070826211438961692338
Archive entry
20070826211438961692338.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#20070826211438961692338.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070826211438961692338.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 
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
20070826211449530490568
Archive entry
20070826211449530490568.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#20070826211449530490568.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070826211449530490568.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016