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A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure, and abstract patterns.

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A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure, and abstract patterns.

A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure…

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Composition

  • two rows of three icons
  • grid layout
  • uniform spacing
  • varied subject matter

Dense Caption

The image displays a static grid of six distinct buddy icons arranged in two rows of three. Top-left icon: pink background with vertical dark brown and white stripes. Top-middle icon: black silhouette of a rounded shape on white background. Top-right icon: white background with light gray and pink horizontal stripes. Bottom-left icon: blue background with a figure in white and dark blue clothing. Bottom-middle icon: green figure with dark green and white details on a light background. Bottom-right icon: white background with abstract black and brown shapes. All icons are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure, and abstract patterns.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200709031834311216611829

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons pixelated grid
  • six distinct icons pink black blue green
  • static buddy icon grid
  • pixelated grid of icons
  • buddy icons with abstract patterns
  • buddy icons blue figure green figure
  • buddy icons pink striped black silhouette
  • buddy icons low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a contact sheet of multiple icons; no motion detected

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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • pink striped icon
  • black silhouette icon
  • blue figure icon
  • green figure icon
  • red figure icon
  • abstract pattern icon
  • pixelated grid
  • six distinct icons
  • white background
  • horizontal stripes
  • vertical stripes
  • low resolution
  • static image
  • buddy icons
  • grid layout
  • blue background
  • green figure
  • black silhouette
  • pink background
  • abstract shapes

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709031834311216611829
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/05/059ba82657a390e0d154f6bc630b2f78b86dffa2391c73b8cbbe0be578947175.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
059ba82657a390e0
SHA-256
059ba82657a390e0d154f6bc630b2f78b86dffa2391c73b8cbbe0be578947175
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.064808

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 21:28 UTC
Run
1249
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
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106
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure, and abstract patterns.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:46 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,674 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 951

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • abstract patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • black silhouette (subject, 0.80)
  • blue figure (subject, 0.80)
  • green figure (subject, 0.80)
  • pink striped shape (subject, 0.80)
  • red figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • green
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • two rows of three icons
  • grid layout
  • uniform spacing
  • varied subject matter

Dense Caption

The image displays a static grid of six distinct buddy icons arranged in two rows of three. Top-left icon: pink background with vertical dark brown and white stripes. Top-middle icon: black silhouette of a rounded shape on white background. Top-right icon: white background with light gray and pink horizontal stripes. Bottom-left icon: blue background with a figure in white and dark blue clothing. Bottom-middle icon: green figure with dark green and white details on a light background. Bottom-right icon: white background with abstract black and brown shapes. All icons are pixelated with low resolution.

Description

A static pixelated image showing a grid of six distinct buddy icons with varied colors and subjects including a pink shape, black silhouette, blue figure, green figure, red figure, and abstract patterns.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200709031834311216611829

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • buddy icons pixelated grid
  • six distinct icons pink black blue green
  • static buddy icon grid
  • pixelated grid of icons
  • buddy icons with abstract patterns
  • buddy icons blue figure green figure
  • buddy icons pink striped black silhouette
  • buddy icons low resolution

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a contact sheet of multiple icons; no motion detected

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
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  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • static
  • buddy icon grid

Subjects

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  • blue figure
  • green figure
  • red figure
  • abstract patterns

Wordwall

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  • vertical stripes
  • low resolution
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  • buddy icons
  • grid layout
  • blue background
  • green figure
  • black silhouette
  • pink background
  • abstract shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200709031834311216611829
Archive entry
200709031834311216611829.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#200709031834311216611829.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709031834311216611829.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016