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A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space

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A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space

A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top-right changes from 'paper' to empty space

Animation Summary

  • The top-right 's text changes from 'paper' to empty space while other remain static

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain background image; bottom-right is solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four panels. Top-left: a hand holds a pen above textured brown paper, with teal pixelated text reading 'sometimes'. Top-right: same background, teal text reads 'paper'. Bottom-left: same background, stacked teal text reads 'is the only one who will listen'. Bottom-right panel is solid gray. The top-right panel's text changes from 'paper' to empty space across observations.

Description

  • A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803090910491443719079
  • 20080309091110655977099

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding pen paper
  • teal pixelated text four
  • sometimes paper is the only one who will listen
  • top-right change

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right panel changes from 'paper' to empty space.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top-right panel's text changes from 'paper' to empty space while other panels remain static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: top-left, top-right, bottom-left panels contain background image; bottom-right is solid gray
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: top-right panel changes from 'paper' to empty space
  • quarantined retrieval: top-right panel change
  • quarantined retrieval: teal pixelated text four-panel grid

Subjects

  • hand

Visible Text

  • sometimes
  • paper
  • is the only one
  • who will
  • listen

Wordwall

  • hand holding pen
  • text overlays
  • teal pixelated font
  • brown paper texture
  • four
  • top-left: sometimes
  • top-right: paper
  • bottom-left: is the only one who will listen

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803090910491443719079
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080309091110655977099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e1f39c41d2fa1b5af236ee93e8c1928e2df4115b126642a3af7255beae6f0472.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
e1f39c41d2fa1b5a
SHA-256
e1f39c41d2fa1b5af236ee93e8c1928e2df4115b126642a3af7255beae6f0472
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 10:57 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000026

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 21:49 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004762

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:55 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.451046

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,171 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,154, response 729

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • writing implied (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • top right changes from paper to empty space (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • paper (subject, 0.80)
  • pen (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • writing (implied)

Animation

  • top-right changes from 'paper' to empty space

Animation Summary

  • The top-right 's text changes from 'paper' to empty space while other remain static

Colors

  • teal
  • brown
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • four
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left contain background image; bottom-right is solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four panels. Top-left: a hand holds a pen above textured brown paper, with teal pixelated text reading 'sometimes'. Top-right: same background, teal text reads 'paper'. Bottom-left: same background, stacked teal text reads 'is the only one who will listen'. Bottom-right panel is solid gray. The top-right panel's text changes from 'paper' to empty space across observations.

Description

  • A four- shows a hand holding a pen over paper with text overlays; the right changes from 'paper' to empty space

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803090910491443719079
  • 20080309091110655977099

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding pen paper
  • teal pixelated text four
  • sometimes paper is the only one who will listen
  • top-right change

Objects

  • pen
  • paper

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animation: top-right panel changes from 'paper' to empty space
  • quarantined retrieval: top-right panel change
  • quarantined retrieval: teal pixelated text four-panel grid

Style

  • pixelated text

Subjects

  • hand
  • pen
  • paper

Visible Text

  • sometimes
  • paper
  • is the only one
  • who will
  • listen

Wordwall

  • hand holding pen
  • text overlays
  • teal pixelated font
  • brown paper texture
  • four
  • top-left: sometimes
  • top-right: paper
  • bottom-left: is the only one who will listen
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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
200803090910491443719079
Archive entry
200803090910491443719079.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803090910491443719079.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803090910491443719079.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
20080309091110655977099
Archive entry
20080309091110655977099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080309091110655977099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080309091110655977099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016