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Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a white background.

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Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a white background.

Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central seed head
  • scattered fragments to right and above
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a dandelion seed head with a black stem extending downward from the center. The seed head consists of a dense cluster of light blue and white pixels forming a rounded shape. Numerous small gray and white pixel fragments are scattered to the right and above the seed head, suggesting dispersal. The background is solid white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dandelion seed head pixelated
  • black stem white background
  • scattered seed fragments
  • low resolution dandelion
  • dispersal seed head
  • pixelated dandelion white background
  • gray seed fragments
  • light blue dandelion

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • dandelion
  • seed head
  • black stem
  • gray fragments
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • scattered seeds
  • low resolution
  • light blue pixels
  • dispersal

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811211433041943194920
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32ac006b20f72764c305942c2319e8139c786569eff47f4dd5dd3d4553372784.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
32ac006b20f72764
SHA-256
32ac006b20f72764c305942c2319e8139c786569eff47f4dd5dd3d4553372784
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 18:15 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000481

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,510 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 673

Review tags

  • dispersal (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • transient (mood, 0.80)
  • seed fragments (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dandelion seed head (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • dispersal

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • central seed head
  • scattered fragments to right and above
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image of a dandelion seed head with a black stem extending downward from the center. The seed head consists of a dense cluster of light blue and white pixels forming a rounded shape. Numerous small gray and white pixel fragments are scattered to the right and above the seed head, suggesting dispersal. The background is solid white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • Pixelated dandelion with black seed head and stem, surrounded by scattered gray and white seed fragments against a 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • calm
  • transient

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dandelion seed head pixelated
  • black stem white background
  • scattered seed fragments
  • low resolution dandelion
  • dispersal seed head
  • pixelated dandelion white background
  • gray seed fragments
  • light blue dandelion

Objects

  • seed fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from smaller original

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains era and collection hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • dandelion seed head

Wordwall

  • dandelion
  • seed head
  • black stem
  • gray fragments
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • scattered seeds
  • low resolution
  • light blue pixels
  • dispersal
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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
200811211433041943194920
Archive entry
200811211433041943194920.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811211433041943194920.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811211433041943194920.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016