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A four-quadrant with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background

A four-quadrant with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrants
  • left-right split
  • text on right
  • character on left

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: black background; cartoon bird character with blue head feathers, red crest, long pink beak, green eyes, smiling expression. Bottom-left quadrant: blurred image of same character in motion or different pose with light blue and green tones. Top-right quadrant: solid red background; bold text "Rev Fan!" in dark brown letters with white outline. Bottom-right quadrant: solid bright green background; bold text "Tech Fan!" in dark brown letters with white outline. All quadrants are equal-sized squares forming a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A four-quadrant with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080502154624782680127
  • 200805021547171104079451
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Named Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon bird Rev Fan Tech Fan
  • four quadrant text labels
  • blue head feathers red crest pink beak
  • Rev Fan! Tech Fan! green red backgrounds

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or frame separation visible
  • quarantined description: A four-quadrant grid with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid text labels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • Rev Fan!
  • Tech Fan!

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon bird character

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant
  • cartoon bird character
  • blue head feathers
  • red crest
  • long pink beak
  • green eyes
  • smiling expression
  • "Rev Fan!" text
  • "Tech Fan!" text
  • black background top-left
  • red background top-right
  • bright green background bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805021547171104079451
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080502154624782680127
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e6/e682ee1dee9d7b31cb9b67f478c14c0319ea3a8a264eb8cb9b8629206f45f840.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
e682ee1dee9d7b31
SHA-256
e682ee1dee9d7b31cb9b67f478c14c0319ea3a8a264eb8cb9b8629206f45f840
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.126958

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.920152onnx/unsafe0.126958onnx/nsfw0.086803onnx/nsfl0.040154
Enrichment records (1)
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A four-quadrant with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,336 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,154, response 876

Review tags

  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 2d animation style (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon bird character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • smiling

Colors

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

Composition

  • quadrants
  • left-right split
  • text on right
  • character on left

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: black background; cartoon bird character with blue head feathers, red crest, long pink beak, green eyes, smiling expression. Bottom-left quadrant: blurred image of same character in motion or different pose with light blue and green tones. Top-right quadrant: solid red background; bold text "Rev Fan!" in dark brown letters with white outline. Bottom-right quadrant: solid bright green background; bold text "Tech Fan!" in dark brown letters with white outline. All quadrants are equal-sized squares forming a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • A four-quadrant with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080502154624782680127
  • 200805021547171104079451
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Mood

  • playful
  • enthusiastic

Named Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon bird Rev Fan Tech Fan
  • four quadrant text labels
  • blue head feathers red crest pink beak
  • Rev Fan! Tech Fan! green red backgrounds

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or frame separation visible
  • quarantined description: A four-quadrant grid with cartoon characters on the left and text labels on the right, each quadrant a distinct color background.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid text labels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • 2D animation style

Subjects

  • cartoon bird character

Visible Text

  • Rev Fan!
  • Tech Fan!

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon bird character

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant
  • cartoon bird character
  • blue head feathers
  • red crest
  • long pink beak
  • green eyes
  • smiling expression
  • "Rev Fan!" text
  • "Tech Fan!" text
  • black background top-left
  • red background top-right
  • bright green background bottom-right
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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
200805021547171104079451
Archive entry
200805021547171104079451.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805021547171104079451.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805021547171104079451.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
20080502154624782680127
Archive entry
20080502154624782680127.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#20080502154624782680127.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080502154624782680127.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016