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A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text.

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A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text.

A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • lower section shows second image

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two vertical sections. The left section shows a pixelated cowboy on a horse against a brown background with green grass below; the cowboy wears a black hat and white shirt. Overlaid text reads "Forget a prince on a horse". The right section shows pink text "I want." on a white background. Below the left section, a second image shows a man in a car with blue water and green grass in the background; overlaid text reads "A vampire with a volvo <3". The entire image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090509153239628164521
  • 20090509153240514642461
  • 20090509154038962717119

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy horse text
  • man car text
  • split-screen pixelated
  • vampire volvo heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static composite of two separate images with overlaid text, not an animation.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Subjects

  • horse
  • car

Visible Text

  • Forget a prince on a horse
  • I want.
  • A vampire with a volvo <3

Wordwall

  • cowboy
  • horse
  • black hat
  • white shirt
  • green grass
  • brown background
  • pink text
  • white background
  • man
  • car
  • blue water
  • volvo
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • split-screen
  • overlaid text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509153240514642461
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509153239628164521
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090509154038962717119
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dd/ddfb9877e36d40cf97b9504f2c5ec5258a26e5357dc39c34a7e4092b972835a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
ddfb9877e36d40cf
SHA-256
ddfb9877e36d40cf97b9504f2c5ec5258a26e5357dc39c34a7e4092b972835a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112118

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.930125onnx/unsafe0.112118onnx/nsfw0.069744onnx/nsfl0.042374
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,935 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,197, response 885

Review tags

  • riding (action, 0.80)
  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black hat (object, 0.80)
  • blue water (object, 0.80)
  • brown background (object, 0.80)
  • green grass (object, 0.80)
  • volvo (object, 0.80)
  • white shirt (object, 0.80)
  • car (subject, 0.80)
  • cowboy (subject, 0.80)
  • horse (subject, 0.80)
  • man (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • riding
  • sitting

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • green
  • brown
  • blue

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • lower section shows second image

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two vertical sections. The left section shows a pixelated cowboy on a horse against a brown background with green grass below; the cowboy wears a black hat and white shirt. Overlaid text reads "Forget a prince on a horse". The right section shows pink text "I want." on a white background. Below the left section, a second image shows a man in a car with blue water and green grass in the background; overlaid text reads "A vampire with a volvo <3". The entire image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a cowboy on a horse and a man in a car, each with overlaid text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090509153239628164521
  • 20090509153240514642461
  • 20090509154038962717119

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cowboy horse text
  • man car text
  • split-screen pixelated
  • vampire volvo heart

Objects

  • black hat
  • white shirt
  • green grass
  • brown background
  • blue water
  • volvo
  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static composite of two separate images with overlaid text, not an animation.

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities

Style

  • pixelated
  • split-screen
  • overlaid text

Subjects

  • cowboy
  • horse
  • man
  • car

Visible Text

  • Forget a prince on a horse
  • I want.
  • A vampire with a volvo <3

Wordwall

  • cowboy
  • horse
  • black hat
  • white shirt
  • green grass
  • brown background
  • pink text
  • white background
  • man
  • car
  • blue water
  • volvo
  • heart symbol
  • pixelated
  • split-screen
  • overlaid text
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Full source records (3)

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
20090509153240514642461
Archive entry
20090509153240514642461.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509153240514642461.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509153240514642461.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
20090509153239628164521
Archive entry
20090509153239628164521.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509153239628164521.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509153239628164521.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
20090509154038962717119
Archive entry
20090509154038962717119.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090509154038962717119.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090509154038962717119.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016