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Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object.

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Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object.

Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears in one frame

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'cute box dude' appears in one frame while character remains static.

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlay in one frame

Dense Caption

Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and small mouth lies on beige background holding black object. Character has light brown top surface. Background is solid beige. In one frame, black text with white outline reads 'cute box dude' positioned over character's right side. Character's pose remains consistent across frames except for text overlay in one frame. Text is pixelated with black outline and white fill. Character's arms are positioned around the black object. Background is uniform beige with no additional elements.

Description

  • Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object.

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
  • 20110519020827810077622
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text overlay 'cute box dude'

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cube character cute box dude
  • cute box dude pixelated text
  • beige background cube character
  • cute box dude black object

Preprocessing Notes

  • text overlay appears in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but is not authoritative

Visible Text

  • cute box dude

Visually Supported Entities

  • cute box dude

Wordwall

  • brown cube character
  • closed eyes
  • small mouth
  • beige background
  • black object
  • text overlay
  • cute box dude
  • pixelated text
  • consistent pose
  • light brown top

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110519020827810077622
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f6/f6682a4b2cfc929ea43515dce6827946fb2df2520ab42f393cdfb407fac02431.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
f6682a4b2cfc929e
SHA-256
f6682a4b2cfc929ea43515dce6827946fb2df2520ab42f393cdfb407fac02431
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071689

OpenAI category scores

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Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:06 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,771 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,162, response 735

Review tags

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  • lying (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
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  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • black object (subject, 0.80)
  • brown cube character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • lying
  • holding

Animation

  • text appears in one frame

Animation Summary

  • Text overlay 'cute box dude' appears in one frame while character remains static.

Colors

  • brown
  • beige
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlay in one frame

Dense Caption

Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and small mouth lies on beige background holding black object. Character has light brown top surface. Background is solid beige. In one frame, black text with white outline reads 'cute box dude' positioned over character's right side. Character's pose remains consistent across frames except for text overlay in one frame. Text is pixelated with black outline and white fill. Character's arms are positioned around the black object. Background is uniform beige with no additional elements.

Description

  • Brown cube-shaped character with closed eyes and a small mouth lies on a beige background, holding a black object.

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
  • 20110519020827810077622
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Metadata Supported By Image

  • text overlay 'cute box dude'

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cube character cute box dude
  • cute box dude pixelated text
  • beige background cube character
  • cute box dude black object

Objects

  • black object

Preprocessing Notes

  • text overlay appears in one frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but is not authoritative

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • brown cube character
  • black object

Visible Text

  • cute box dude

Visually Supported Entities

  • cute box dude

Wordwall

  • brown cube character
  • closed eyes
  • small mouth
  • beige background
  • black object
  • text overlay
  • cute box dude
  • pixelated text
  • consistent pose
  • light brown top
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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
20110519020827810077622
Archive entry
20110519020827810077622.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#20110519020827810077622.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110519020827810077622.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016