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Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones.

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Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones.

Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Composition

  • central snowflake dominates composition
  • smaller fragments scattered around periphery
  • asymmetrical arrangement of shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of multiple pixelated snowflakes in various shades of blue (light cyan to deep navy) on a solid white background. There are three distinct snowflake shapes: one large central snowflake with six arms and intricate branching patterns, two medium-sized snowflakes with simpler six-armed structures, and several smaller scattered fragments. The pixels exhibit dithering effects typical of low-resolution digital art from the early 2000s. No text or additional elements are visible.

Description

Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712071846221534202718

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated snowflakes
  • white background snowflake icon
  • low resolution blue snowflakes
  • dithered cyan and navy snowflakes

Wordwall

  • blue
  • snowflake
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • six arms
  • dithered
  • low resolution
  • central snowflake
  • smaller fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712071846221534202718
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
1d4d01306b87a1a2
SHA-256
1d4d01306b87a1a2b97a1dff5fa50ac45d7aeacb8b50556c720cc2f6c5afcca7
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115833

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Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:03 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,897 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 664

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • medium blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dithered shading (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light cyan
  • medium blue
  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • central snowflake dominates composition
  • smaller fragments scattered around periphery
  • asymmetrical arrangement of shapes

Dense Caption

The image consists of multiple pixelated snowflakes in various shades of blue (light cyan to deep navy) on a solid white background. There are three distinct snowflake shapes: one large central snowflake with six arms and intricate branching patterns, two medium-sized snowflakes with simpler six-armed structures, and several smaller scattered fragments. The pixels exhibit dithering effects typical of low-resolution digital art from the early 2000s. No text or additional elements are visible.

Description

Pixelated blue snowflakes of varying sizes and shades float against a white background, with one large central snowflake surrounded by smaller ones.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712071846221534202718

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated snowflakes
  • white background snowflake icon
  • low resolution blue snowflakes
  • dithered cyan and navy snowflakes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • dithered shading

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Wordwall

  • blue
  • snowflake
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • six arms
  • dithered
  • low resolution
  • central snowflake
  • smaller fragments
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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
200712071846221534202718
Archive entry
200712071846221534202718.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712071846221534202718.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712071846221534202718.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016