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Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below.

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Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below.

Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three
  • partially obscured

Dense Caption

Red cartoon box with rounded yellow handles, two yellow circular eyes, and a large black mouth. The box has orange decorative patterns on its sides. Below the box, a yellow hand is visible on the right side. Under the hand, there is red text with yellow outline. The background is solid green. The image appears in three identical panels arranged in a grid. The rightmost panel is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. The text below the box is partially visible and appears to read 'unhappy' with a yellow outline.

Description

  • Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cartoon box yellow handles
  • unhappy text green background
  • yellow hand cartoon box
  • three gray rectangle

Objects

  • hand
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains three identical panels
  • rightmost panel partially obscured by gray rectangle
  • quarantined wordwall: three panels
  • quarantined composition: three panels
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: three panels gray rectangle

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

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • hand

Uncertain Text

  • unhappy

Visible Text

  • unhappy

Visually Supported Entities

  • unhappy

Wordwall

  • red cartoon box
  • yellow handles
  • yellow eyes
  • black mouth
  • orange patterns
  • yellow hand
  • green background
  • red text
  • yellow outline
  • partially visible text
  • three
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080908121433895905573
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809201645121797091216
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/dbf5bdde7af51cf876caf6cf27976ccae06ffb82222a2083169d35c34079c351.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
dbf5bdde7af51cf8
SHA-256
dbf5bdde7af51cf876caf6cf27976ccae06ffb82222a2083169d35c34079c351
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.075479

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924521onnx/unsafe0.075479onnx/nsfw0.042824onnx/nsfl0.032655
Enrichment records (1)
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Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,128 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 747

Review tags

  • unhappy (mood, 0.80)
  • eyes (object, 0.80)
  • handles (object, 0.80)
  • mouth (object, 0.80)
  • patterns (object, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon box (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • black
  • orange
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • three
  • partially obscured

Dense Caption

Red cartoon box with rounded yellow handles, two yellow circular eyes, and a large black mouth. The box has orange decorative patterns on its sides. Below the box, a yellow hand is visible on the right side. Under the hand, there is red text with yellow outline. The background is solid green. The image appears in three identical panels arranged in a grid. The rightmost panel is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. The text below the box is partially visible and appears to read 'unhappy' with a yellow outline.

Description

  • Red cartoon box with yellow handles, black mouth, and yellow eyes on green background, with yellow hand and red-yellow text below.

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: historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • unhappy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red cartoon box yellow handles
  • unhappy text green background
  • yellow hand cartoon box
  • three gray rectangle

Objects

  • handles
  • eyes
  • mouth
  • patterns
  • hand
  • text
  • rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • image contains three identical panels
  • rightmost panel partially obscured by gray rectangle
  • quarantined wordwall: three panels
  • quarantined composition: three panels
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: three panels gray rectangle

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

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cartoon box
  • hand

Uncertain Text

  • unhappy

Visible Text

  • unhappy

Visually Supported Entities

  • unhappy

Wordwall

  • red cartoon box
  • yellow handles
  • yellow eyes
  • black mouth
  • orange patterns
  • yellow hand
  • green background
  • red text
  • yellow outline
  • partially visible text
  • three
  • gray rectangle
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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
20080908121433895905573
Archive entry
20080908121433895905573.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080908121433895905573.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080908121433895905573.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
200809201645121797091216
Archive entry
200809201645121797091216.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809201645121797091216.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809201645121797091216.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016