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A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background.

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A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background.

A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with pixelated snowflakes on blue gradient background.

Composition

  • central placement of main subject
  • secondary subjects to right and below

Dense Caption

The image shows a large central snowflake composed of white and light gray pixels, featuring six main arms each with branching patterns. Smaller snowflakes appear to the right and below the central figure. The background transitions from dark blue at the top to lighter blue at the bottom. Pixelation is visible throughout the entire composition. No text or human figures are present in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background.

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
  • 20071216105620312971703

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflake pixel art
  • blue gradient background
  • white and light gray snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflake
  • smaller secondary snowflakes

Wordwall

  • snowflake
  • pixelated
  • white
  • light gray
  • blue gradient
  • six arms
  • smaller snowflakes
  • central figure

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071216105620312971703
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1d/1dff0169c6b25116df76af80cd66d65a3404ea80fae9766a3b26ff253dc8cb6c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
1dff0169c6b25116
SHA-256
1dff0169c6b25116df76af80cd66d65a3404ea80fae9766a3b26ff253dc8cb6c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:15 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074183

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:29 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,576 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 557

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • snowflake (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with pixelated snowflakes on blue gradient background.

Colors

  • white
  • light gray
  • dark blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • central placement of main subject
  • secondary subjects to right and below

Dense Caption

The image shows a large central snowflake composed of white and light gray pixels, featuring six main arms each with branching patterns. Smaller snowflakes appear to the right and below the central figure. The background transitions from dark blue at the top to lighter blue at the bottom. Pixelation is visible throughout the entire composition. No text or human figures are present in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated snowflake icon with multiple branches and smaller secondary flakes on a blue gradient background.

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
  • 20071216105620312971703

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflake pixel art
  • blue gradient background
  • white and light gray snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflake
  • smaller secondary snowflakes

Objects

  • snowflake

Style

  • pixel art
  • static image

Subjects

  • snowflake

Wordwall

  • snowflake
  • pixelated
  • white
  • light gray
  • blue gradient
  • six arms
  • smaller snowflakes
  • central figure
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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
20071216105620312971703
Archive entry
20071216105620312971703.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071216105620312971703.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071216105620312971703.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016