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A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower.

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A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower.

A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-section
  • text overlay
  • colorful graphics

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four sections. Top-left section shows the word 'the' in dark brown letters with a blue outline on a light background with faint curved lines. Top-right section displays a rainbow with yellow, green, blue, and purple bands, a white cloud outline at the top, and a pink banner with partial text 'wesome' in purple letters. Bottom-left section features a colorful flower with pink, blue, yellow, green, and orange petals on a dark background, overlaid with the text 'AFabro' in red letters with a green outline. Bottom-right section is a solid gray area. The image has pixelated rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the rainbow flower
  • AFabro text
  • wesome banner
  • blue brown text
  • pixelated graphics

Objects

  • flower

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static composite of multiple graphics rather than an animated sequence.
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • The source hints mention 'franksicons.com' and '2007-2016', but the image itself shows no direct evidence of these claims.

Subjects

  • flower

Visible Text

  • the
  • wesome
  • AFabro

Wordwall

  • 'the' text
  • rainbow graphic
  • pink banner
  • flower graphic
  • red 'AFabro' text
  • blue outline
  • green outline
  • pixelated rendering
  • faint curved lines
  • solid gray section

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2010072722524219376059
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/da/daa822e7c0cd0cf625a73b9459c04f64435008240504fde6c35184b82b907b31.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
daa822e7c0cd0cf6
SHA-256
daa822e7c0cd0cf625a73b9459c04f64435008240504fde6c35184b82b907b31
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 20:18 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000084

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000084falseharassment0.000016falsehate0.000004falseself-harm0.000004falseviolence0.000004falseillicit0.000002falseviolence/graphic0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 06:34 UTC
Run
1258
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000524

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000524falseself-harm0.000471falseself-harm/intent0.000214falsesexual0.000135falseviolence/graphic0.000009falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.317995

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928514onnx/unsafe0.317995onnx/nsfw0.283191onnx/nsfl0.034804
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,992 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 760

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • banner (subject, 0.80)
  • cloud outline (subject, 0.80)
  • flower (subject, 0.80)
  • rainbow (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • yellow
  • green
  • purple
  • pink
  • red
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four-section
  • text overlay
  • colorful graphics

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four sections. Top-left section shows the word 'the' in dark brown letters with a blue outline on a light background with faint curved lines. Top-right section displays a rainbow with yellow, green, blue, and purple bands, a white cloud outline at the top, and a pink banner with partial text 'wesome' in purple letters. Bottom-left section features a colorful flower with pink, blue, yellow, green, and orange petals on a dark background, overlaid with the text 'AFabro' in red letters with a green outline. Bottom-right section is a solid gray area. The image has pixelated rendering with visible dithering.

Description

  • A static image with four distinct sections showing text and graphics including 'the', a rainbow, and 'AFabro' over a flower.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the rainbow flower
  • AFabro text
  • wesome banner
  • blue brown text
  • pixelated graphics

Objects

  • rainbow
  • cloud outline
  • flower
  • banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static composite of multiple graphics rather than an animated sequence.
  • quarantined composition: four-section grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • The source hints mention 'franksicons.com' and '2007-2016', but the image itself shows no direct evidence of these claims.

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered
  • graphic

Subjects

  • text
  • rainbow
  • cloud outline
  • flower
  • banner

Visible Text

  • the
  • wesome
  • AFabro

Wordwall

  • 'the' text
  • rainbow graphic
  • pink banner
  • flower graphic
  • red 'AFabro' text
  • blue outline
  • green outline
  • pixelated rendering
  • faint curved lines
  • solid gray section
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:59 UTC
Run
61
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
2010072722524219376059
Archive entry
2010072722524219376059.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#2010072722524219376059.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2010072722524219376059.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016