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Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white background.

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Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white background.

Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • asymmetrical arrangement
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

The static grayscale image consists of three distinct horizontal segments. The top segment spans the full width, containing a series of dark gray rectangular blocks separated by lighter gray spaces. The middle section is divided into two parts: left portion shows dense dark gray pixels forming an irregular shape with scattered light gray areas; right portion contains smaller dark gray rectangles on a light gray background. The bottom segment displays a single horizontal bar with a central cluster of dark gray pixels and trailing light gray extensions to the right. All elements are set against a plain white background.

Description

  • Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070904172201736632839

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated horizontal segments
  • dark gray blocks white background
  • irregular pixel clusters abstract layout

Wordwall

  • three horizontal segments
  • grayscale palette
  • dark gray blocks
  • light gray spaces
  • irregular pixel clusters
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070904172201736632839
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
568 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31255de09b9ca979d959d78de1758d53940deb70e14de97f0fc1cff83d40b05e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
31255de09b9ca979
SHA-256
31255de09b9ca979d959d78de1758d53940deb70e14de97f0fc1cff83d40b05e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122529

OpenAI category scores

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Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white background.

Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 23:31 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,179 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 632

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • unemotional (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • asymmetrical arrangement
  • no central focal point

Dense Caption

The static grayscale image consists of three distinct horizontal segments. The top segment spans the full width, containing a series of dark gray rectangular blocks separated by lighter gray spaces. The middle section is divided into two parts: left portion shows dense dark gray pixels forming an irregular shape with scattered light gray areas; right portion contains smaller dark gray rectangles on a light gray background. The bottom segment displays a single horizontal bar with a central cluster of dark gray pixels and trailing light gray extensions to the right. All elements are set against a plain white background.

Description

  • Static grayscale image showing three horizontal rectangular sections with varying pixel density and dark gray blocks on white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070904172201736632839

Mood

  • neutral
  • unemotional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated horizontal segments
  • dark gray blocks white background
  • irregular pixel clusters abstract layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • three horizontal segments
  • grayscale palette
  • dark gray blocks
  • light gray spaces
  • irregular pixel clusters
  • white 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
20070904172201736632839
Archive entry
20070904172201736632839.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070904172201736632839.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070904172201736632839.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016