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Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center.

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Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center.

Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • sky background
  • clouds scattered

Dense Caption

Static image shows a bright blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. Centered horizontally across the image is bold black text with white lettering spelling "CLOUDS!". The text has a thick black outline and appears in a pixelated, blocky font. The clouds are scattered across the sky with varying shapes and densities. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • clouds sky text
  • blue sky clouds
  • CLOUDS! text
  • pixelated clouds
  • text overlay sky
  • clouds scattered
  • blocky font clouds
  • white clouds blue sky

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • CLOUDS!

Wordwall

  • blue sky
  • white clouds
  • CLOUDS! text
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • clouds scattered
  • text centered
  • blocky letters
  • white lettering
  • black outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080822190814739735046
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 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 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
2fd6cf750af1f780
SHA-256
2fd6cf750af1f7808d9444cd8c4e7c8076b91c2239279205fb1666ff01403dce
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,054 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 661

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • clouds (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • sky background
  • clouds scattered

Dense Caption

Static image shows a bright blue sky filled with fluffy white clouds. Centered horizontally across the image is bold black text with white lettering spelling "CLOUDS!". The text has a thick black outline and appears in a pixelated, blocky font. The clouds are scattered across the sky with varying shapes and densities. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Static image of white clouds against a blue sky with bold black text reading "CLOUDS!" in the center.

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

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • clouds sky text
  • blue sky clouds
  • CLOUDS! text
  • pixelated clouds
  • text overlay sky
  • clouds scattered
  • blocky font clouds
  • white clouds blue sky

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • clouds

Visible Text

  • CLOUDS!

Wordwall

  • blue sky
  • white clouds
  • CLOUDS! text
  • pixelated font
  • static image
  • clouds scattered
  • text centered
  • blocky letters
  • white lettering
  • black outline
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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
20080822190814739735046
Archive entry
20080822190814739735046.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080822190814739735046.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080822190814739735046.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016