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Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections.

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Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections.

Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four distinct sections containing a penguin and text elements.

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left subject
  • bottom-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated emperor penguin facing left, black head and beak, yellow neck patch, white belly, black wings and feet on light blue background with subtle gradient. Bottom-left quadrant contains green text 'Penguins' in blocky font. Top-right quadrant has green text 'I' above 'LUV'. Bottom-right is solid gray. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200804121900051320084784
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • penguin pixel art
  • green text I LUV
  • Penguins text blocky font
  • four quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Penguins
  • I
  • LUV

Wordwall

  • emperor penguin
  • pixelated image
  • light blue background
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • 'Penguins' text
  • 'I' text
  • 'LUV' text
  • solid gray section

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804121900051320084784
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f4/f4710b5a21911bb90b91c2cc347a0002d892f12410c772cf283116411d417d25.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
f4710b5a21911bb9
SHA-256
f4710b5a21911bb90b91c2cc347a0002d892f12410c772cf283116411d417d25
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090410

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 03:06 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,625 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • penguin (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with four distinct sections containing a penguin and text elements.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white
  • light blue
  • green
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left subject
  • bottom-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated emperor penguin facing left, black head and beak, yellow neck patch, white belly, black wings and feet on light blue background with subtle gradient. Bottom-left quadrant contains green text 'Penguins' in blocky font. Top-right quadrant has green text 'I' above 'LUV'. Bottom-right is solid gray. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with green text elements reading 'Penguins', 'I', and 'LUV' in separate sections.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200804121900051320084784
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • penguin pixel art
  • green text I LUV
  • Penguins text blocky font
  • four quadrant

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • penguin

Visible Text

  • Penguins
  • I
  • LUV

Wordwall

  • emperor penguin
  • pixelated image
  • light blue background
  • green text
  • blocky font
  • 'Penguins' text
  • 'I' text
  • 'LUV' text
  • solid gray section
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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
200804121900051320084784
Archive entry
200804121900051320084784.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#200804121900051320084784.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804121900051320084784.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016