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Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest.

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Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest.

Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text on chest changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'Ming-Ming'

Animation Summary

  • Text on chest changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'Ming-Ming'

Composition

  • centered character
  • white background

Dense Caption

Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf. The character has a light purple beak, black eyes, and brown hair. Red text on the chest changes across observations: first shows 'I', then '<3', then 'Ming-Ming'. The background is white in all observations. The character's pose and expression remain consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest.

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 topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070823141410522977684

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Ming-Ming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck aviator helmet
  • Ming-Ming text
  • duck with green scarf
  • red text changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

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

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Ming-Ming

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ming-Ming

Wordwall

  • yellow duck
  • brown aviator helmet
  • green scarf
  • light purple beak
  • black eyes
  • red text
  • I
  • <3
  • Ming-Ming
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070823141410522977684
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d3/d30edb94c6aa6baeab8f16eea14a1b82e8fcfd44a8d6e6e0bcb6b3b1d915e06a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
d30edb94c6aa6bae
SHA-256
d30edb94c6aa6baeab8f16eea14a1b82e8fcfd44a8d6e6e0bcb6b3b1d915e06a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 09:01 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100779

OpenAI category scores

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

Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,697 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 838

Review tags

  • text changes on chest (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • aviator helmet (object, 0.80)
  • scarf (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • duck like character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes on chest

Animation

  • text on chest changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'Ming-Ming'

Animation Summary

  • Text on chest changes from 'I' to '<3' to 'Ming-Ming'

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • green
  • light purple
  • black
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • centered character
  • white background

Dense Caption

Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf. The character has a light purple beak, black eyes, and brown hair. Red text on the chest changes across observations: first shows 'I', then '<3', then 'Ming-Ming'. The background is white in all observations. The character's pose and expression remain consistent across all frames.

Description

  • Yellow duck-like character with brown aviator helmet and green scarf, displaying red text changes on chest.

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 topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070823141410522977684

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful

Named Entities

  • Ming-Ming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow duck aviator helmet
  • Ming-Ming text
  • duck with green scarf
  • red text changes

Objects

  • aviator helmet
  • scarf

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • duck-like character

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • Ming-Ming

Visually Supported Entities

  • Ming-Ming

Wordwall

  • yellow duck
  • brown aviator helmet
  • green scarf
  • light purple beak
  • black eyes
  • red text
  • I
  • <3
  • Ming-Ming
  • white background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:47 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
20070823141410522977684
Archive entry
20070823141410522977684.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070823141410522977684.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070823141410522977684.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016