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Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below, yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text, blue background with '(two)' text, and Earth held by hands with '(earth)' text.

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Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below, yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text, blue background with '(two)' text, and Earth held by hands with '(earth)' text.

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Style

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Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below; yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text; blue background with '(two)' text; Earth held by hands with '(earth)' text. All elements are static, pixelated, and arranged in a grid layout. The question mark is green on white background. The smiley is yellow with black outline and peace sign gesture. The blue background has subtle lines. The Earth image shows continents on blue and green globe held by brown hands against black background.

Description

Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below, yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text, blue background with '(two)' text, and Earth held by hands with '(earth)' 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • question mark what
  • peace sign smiley
  • two earth
  • blue background earth
  • text what peace
  • earth hands blue
  • smiley peace two
  • question mark earth

Objects

  • question mark
  • smiley face

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Subjects

  • question mark
  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • what?
  • oh Right
  • Peace
  • (two)
  • (earth)

Wordwall

  • green question mark
  • what?
  • yellow smiley
  • peace sign
  • Peace text
  • blue background
  • (two) text
  • Earth held by hands
  • (earth) text
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • black outline
  • brown hands
  • blue and green globe
  • subtle lines
  • text below
  • static
  • black text

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908261028501514932784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
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v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
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SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
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1136
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Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below, yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text, blue background with '(two)' text, and Earth held by hands with '(earth)' text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,566 ms
Tokens
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  • question mark (subject, 0.80)
  • smiley face (subject, 0.80)

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  • holding
  • peace sign gesture

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • brown

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text below icons

Dense Caption

Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below; yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text; blue background with '(two)' text; Earth held by hands with '(earth)' text. All elements are static, pixelated, and arranged in a grid layout. The question mark is green on white background. The smiley is yellow with black outline and peace sign gesture. The blue background has subtle lines. The Earth image shows continents on blue and green globe held by brown hands against black background.

Description

Green question mark icon with 'what?' text below, yellow peace sign smiley with 'Peace' text, blue background with '(two)' text, and Earth held by hands with '(earth)' 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • curious
  • neutral
  • peaceful
  • calm

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  • peace sign smiley
  • two earth
  • blue background earth
  • text what peace
  • earth hands blue
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  • question mark earth

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  • smiley face

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  • Earth

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  • Peace
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  • yellow smiley
  • peace sign
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  • blue background
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  • Earth held by hands
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  • white background
  • black outline
  • brown hands
  • blue and green globe
  • subtle lines
  • text below
  • static
  • black text
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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
200908261028501514932784
Archive entry
200908261028501514932784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200908261028501514932784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908261028501514932784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016