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Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns

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Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns

Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform spacing between icons

Dense Caption

Four separate blue snowflakes displayed against solid black background. Top-left snowflake has six arms with three central branches and two side branches per arm; top-right snowflake features eight arms with four main branches and one smaller branch per arm; bottom-left snowflake shows five arms with single central branch and two side branches per arm; bottom-right snowflake displays seven arms with three main branches and one smaller branch per arm. All snowflakes are rendered in solid blue color without gradients or outlines.

Description

  • Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns

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
  • 200712220525292115595398

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue snowflake icons
  • four blue snowflakes
  • black background snowflakes
  • pixelated snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on black background, each with distinct branching patterns.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated snowflakes grid

Wordwall

  • blue
  • snowflake
  • black background
  • four icons
  • distinct branching patterns
  • solid color
  • no outlines

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712220525292115595398
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
16df5faf4f555c7e
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:07 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:39 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,574 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 620

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform spacing between icons

Dense Caption

Four separate blue snowflakes displayed against solid black background. Top-left snowflake has six arms with three central branches and two side branches per arm; top-right snowflake features eight arms with four main branches and one smaller branch per arm; bottom-left snowflake shows five arms with single central branch and two side branches per arm; bottom-right snowflake displays seven arms with three main branches and one smaller branch per arm. All snowflakes are rendered in solid blue color without gradients or outlines.

Description

  • Four blue snowflake icons arranged in a on black background, each with distinct branching patterns

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
  • 200712220525292115595398

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue snowflake icons
  • four blue snowflakes
  • black background snowflakes
  • pixelated snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated snowflakes grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • vector-like
  • simplified

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Wordwall

  • blue
  • snowflake
  • black background
  • four icons
  • distinct branching patterns
  • solid color
  • no outlines
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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
200712220525292115595398
Archive entry
200712220525292115595398.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712220525292115595398.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712220525292115595398.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016