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Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face.

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Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face.

Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • emoticon changes from neutral to smiling
  • emoticon appears and disappears

Animation Summary

  • The emoticon overlay changes from a neutral face to a smiling face and appears/disappears across frames.

Composition

  • three corn cobs
  • centered
  • white background

Dense Caption

Four frames show three green corn cobs with yellow kernels on a white background. The top-left frame has a black and white emoticon overlay with a neutral face (two white squares for eyes and a straight line for a mouth). The top-right frame shows the same corn cobs without the emoticon. The bottom-left frame shows the same corn cobs with the emoticon overlay changed to a smiling face (two white squares for eyes and a curved line for a mouth). The bottom-right frame is empty. The emoticon overlay appears and disappears between frames, changing from a neutral to a smiling expression.

Description

  • Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200906180919382057695171

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corn cobs emoticon neutral smiling
  • animated corn cobs emoticon
  • emoticon changes expression
  • buddy icon corn emoticon
  • corn cobs white background
  • emoticon neutral smiling
  • animated emoticon corn
  • corn cobs smiling face

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 4 is empty

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: humor

Wordwall

  • corn cobs
  • green husks
  • yellow kernels
  • white background
  • black and white emoticon
  • neutral face
  • smiling face
  • emoticon overlay
  • frame 1: neutral
  • frame 2: no emoticon
  • frame 3: smiling
  • frame 4: empty

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906180919382057695171
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d9/d97eacc46af3f9bbdc71a27737135bf6c9fc5f85ac90062fe4a5d99f47e45b32.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
d97eacc46af3f9bb
SHA-256
d97eacc46af3f9bbdc71a27737135bf6c9fc5f85ac90062fe4a5d99f47e45b32
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:50 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080893

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926148onnx/unsafe0.080893onnx/nsfw0.043376onnx/nsfl0.037517
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Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,401 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 879

Review tags

  • emoticon appears (action, 0.80)
  • emoticon changes expression (action, 0.80)
  • emoticon disappears (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • corn cobs (subject, 0.80)
  • emoticon (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • emoticon changes expression
  • emoticon appears
  • emoticon disappears

Animation

  • emoticon changes from neutral to smiling
  • emoticon appears and disappears

Animation Summary

  • The emoticon overlay changes from a neutral face to a smiling face and appears/disappears across frames.

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • three corn cobs
  • centered
  • white background

Dense Caption

Four frames show three green corn cobs with yellow kernels on a white background. The top-left frame has a black and white emoticon overlay with a neutral face (two white squares for eyes and a straight line for a mouth). The top-right frame shows the same corn cobs without the emoticon. The bottom-left frame shows the same corn cobs with the emoticon overlay changed to a smiling face (two white squares for eyes and a curved line for a mouth). The bottom-right frame is empty. The emoticon overlay appears and disappears between frames, changing from a neutral to a smiling expression.

Description

  • Animated corn cobs with a black and white emoticon overlay that changes from a neutral face to a smiling face.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200906180919382057695171

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • corn cobs emoticon neutral smiling
  • animated corn cobs emoticon
  • emoticon changes expression
  • buddy icon corn emoticon
  • corn cobs white background
  • emoticon neutral smiling
  • animated emoticon corn
  • corn cobs smiling face

Objects

  • corn cobs
  • emoticon

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 4 is empty

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: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • corn cobs
  • emoticon

Wordwall

  • corn cobs
  • green husks
  • yellow kernels
  • white background
  • black and white emoticon
  • neutral face
  • smiling face
  • emoticon overlay
  • frame 1: neutral
  • frame 2: no emoticon
  • frame 3: smiling
  • frame 4: empty
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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
200906180919382057695171
Archive entry
200906180919382057695171.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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

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