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Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a

Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • (3 icons)
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Top-left icon: shield-shaped border with intricate patterns; white numerals "8" and partial "7" on dark background. Top-right icon: identical shield shape; white numeral "1" and partial "9" visible. Bottom-left icon: same shield design; bold black numerals "2008!" with exclamation mark. All icons share the same ornate border style, pixelated rendering, and monochrome color scheme. The bottom-right area of the image is a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a

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
  • 20080328091804858324404
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 2008 shield icon
  • pixelated 8 9 2008 icons
  • ornate border numerals
  • monochrome year icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout (3 icons)

Visible Text

  • 8
  • 7
  • 1
  • 9
  • 2008!

Visually Supported Entities

  • 2008

Wordwall

  • ornate shield borders
  • pixelated rendering
  • monochrome palette
  • sequential numerals
  • 2008! exclamation mark
  • gray rectangle background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080328091804858324404
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:20 UTC
Archive ID
29c9bbf332157dd8
SHA-256
29c9bbf332157dd8b4edf0c5d8d8fd95972b1823240beb3d9ae508c14cab38d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:27 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077390

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Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 20:42 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,912 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 675

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • ornate border design (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • numerical symbols (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • (3 icons)
  • solid gray rectangle in bottom-right corner

Dense Caption

Top-left icon: shield-shaped border with intricate patterns; white numerals "8" and partial "7" on dark background. Top-right icon: identical shield shape; white numeral "1" and partial "9" visible. Bottom-left icon: same shield design; bold black numerals "2008!" with exclamation mark. All icons share the same ornate border style, pixelated rendering, and monochrome color scheme. The bottom-right area of the image is a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a

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
  • 20080328091804858324404
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 2008 shield icon
  • pixelated 8 9 2008 icons
  • ornate border numerals
  • monochrome year icons

Objects

  • shield-shaped borders

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Three black-and-white pixelated icons with ornate borders display sequential numbers and a year, arranged in a grid layout.
  • quarantined composition: grid layout (3 icons)

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • ornate border design

Subjects

  • numerical symbols

Visible Text

  • 8
  • 7
  • 1
  • 9
  • 2008!

Visually Supported Entities

  • 2008

Wordwall

  • ornate shield borders
  • pixelated rendering
  • monochrome palette
  • sequential numerals
  • 2008! exclamation mark
  • gray rectangle background
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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
20080328091804858324404
Archive entry
20080328091804858324404.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080328091804858324404.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080328091804858324404.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016