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Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring".

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Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring".

Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring". Animated 50×50 GIF AIM budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "Tell us a Story" to "I know you're not boring"

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "Tell us a Story" to "I know you're not boring".

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlaid
  • two

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring". Character has large circular eyes, red mouth, and layered necklaces. Text is bold, red, and outlined in black. Background features yellow and brown shapes. Character's expression is neutral. Text appears in two separate panels.

Description

Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811121523301374207519
  • 200811121523302121487671

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text pixelated character
  • yellow brown background
  • buddy icon text change
  • neutral expression character

Preprocessing Notes

  • text is split across two panels
  • quarantined wordwall: two text panels
  • quarantined composition: two panels

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

Visible Text

  • Tell us a Story
  • I know you're not boring

Wordwall

  • red text
  • yellow background
  • brown background
  • pixelated character
  • large circular eyes
  • red mouth
  • layered necklaces
  • bold red text
  • black outline
  • neutral expression
  • two text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811121523301374207519
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811121523302121487671
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ea/ea202b4d5ed234b0f978d6e932d425c985ed483b3cbc4a0145ec9309e86260da.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
ea202b4d5ed234b0
SHA-256
ea202b4d5ed234b0f978d6e932d425c985ed483b3cbc4a0145ec9309e86260da
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084750

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.937047onnx/unsafe0.084750onnx/nsfw0.048723onnx/nsfl0.036028
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring".

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,828 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,156, response 818

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • necklaces (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from "Tell us a Story" to "I know you're not boring"

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from "Tell us a Story" to "I know you're not boring".

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlaid
  • two

Dense Caption

Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring". Character has large circular eyes, red mouth, and layered necklaces. Text is bold, red, and outlined in black. Background features yellow and brown shapes. Character's expression is neutral. Text appears in two separate panels.

Description

Pixelated character with red and blue accents, yellow and brown background, red text overlays reading "Tell us a Story" and "I know you're not boring".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811121523301374207519
  • 200811121523302121487671

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text pixelated character
  • yellow brown background
  • buddy icon text change
  • neutral expression character

Objects

  • necklaces

Preprocessing Notes

  • text is split across two panels
  • quarantined wordwall: two text panels
  • quarantined composition: two panels

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • character

Visible Text

  • Tell us a Story
  • I know you're not boring

Wordwall

  • red text
  • yellow background
  • brown background
  • pixelated character
  • large circular eyes
  • red mouth
  • layered necklaces
  • bold red text
  • black outline
  • neutral expression
  • two text
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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
200811121523301374207519
Archive entry
200811121523301374207519.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811121523301374207519.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811121523301374207519.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
200811121523302121487671
Archive entry
200811121523302121487671.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811121523302121487671.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811121523302121487671.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016