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Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames.

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Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames.

Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

Text overlays change across frames: "St." appears in top-left, "aurenc" in top-right, and "Vikings" in bottom-left while the Viking head remains static.

Composition

  • centered Viking head
  • text overlays in different positions

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated Viking head with curved horns and a full beard, rendered in a low-resolution style. Yellow text overlays appear in three distinct frames: "St." in the top-left frame, "aurenc" in the top-right frame, and "Vikings" in the bottom-left frame. The text has a black outline. The background is white in all visible frames. The right side of the bottom-right frame is grayed out. The image shows animation changes where the text content shifts across frames while the Viking head remains static.

Description

  • Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811281944041984303410

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated Viking head
  • yellow text overlays
  • text shifts animation
  • Vikings buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • grayed-out section in bottom-right frame

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • St.
  • aurenc
  • Vikings

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated Viking head
  • curved horns
  • full beard
  • yellow text
  • black outline
  • white background
  • grayed-out section
  • text shifts across frames

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811281944041984303410
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
e75d1776d3b1dc3b
SHA-256
e75d1776d3b1dc3b78a5be2f8f3c3f17bf2eaefeb7c5ddc9b70fed272293034b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.075244

OpenAI category scores

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Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,020 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 813

Review tags

  • text shifts (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • viking head (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text shifts

Animation

  • text changes across frames

Animation Summary

Text overlays change across frames: "St." appears in top-left, "aurenc" in top-right, and "Vikings" in bottom-left while the Viking head remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • centered Viking head
  • text overlays in different positions

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated Viking head with curved horns and a full beard, rendered in a low-resolution style. Yellow text overlays appear in three distinct frames: "St." in the top-left frame, "aurenc" in the top-right frame, and "Vikings" in the bottom-left frame. The text has a black outline. The background is white in all visible frames. The right side of the bottom-right frame is grayed out. The image shows animation changes where the text content shifts across frames while the Viking head remains static.

Description

  • Blue pixelated Viking head with horns and beard, yellow text overlays reading "St.", "aurenc", and "Vikings" across different frames.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811281944041984303410

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated Viking head
  • yellow text overlays
  • text shifts animation
  • Vikings buddy icon

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • grayed-out section in bottom-right frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • Viking head

Visible Text

  • St.
  • aurenc
  • Vikings

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated Viking head
  • curved horns
  • full beard
  • yellow text
  • black outline
  • white background
  • grayed-out section
  • text shifts across frames
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Full source records (1)

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
200811281944041984303410
Archive entry
200811281944041984303410.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811281944041984303410.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811281944041984303410.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016