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Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each.

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Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each.

Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four icons arranged in two of two
  • text centered above each icon

Dense Caption

Light blue background. Four white pixelated snowflake icons arranged in two rows of two. Each snowflake has six arms with varying branch patterns; top-left and bottom-right are more symmetrical, top-right and bottom-left have asymmetrical branches. Black bold sans-serif 'madison' text centered above each snowflake. Snowflakes appear static across all frames.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background snowflakes
  • white pixelated madison icons
  • four symmetrical asymmetrical snowflakes
  • madison text white snowflake

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four icons arranged in two rows of two

Visible Text

  • madison

Visually Supported Entities

  • madison

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white pixelated snowflakes
  • 'madison' text
  • four icons
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • symmetrical and asymmetrical branches

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090130191246400607439
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/343eb00b66bd107e641e23c78e1f0b64efe47b0638b0a9e847dd4f0fc74f2d05.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
343eb00b66bd107e
SHA-256
343eb00b66bd107e641e23c78e1f0b64efe47b0638b0a9e847dd4f0fc74f2d05
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109077

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Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,746 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 580

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four icons arranged in two of two
  • text centered above each icon

Dense Caption

Light blue background. Four white pixelated snowflake icons arranged in two rows of two. Each snowflake has six arms with varying branch patterns; top-left and bottom-right are more symmetrical, top-right and bottom-left have asymmetrical branches. Black bold sans-serif 'madison' text centered above each snowflake. Snowflakes appear static across all frames.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a light blue background with 'madison' text above each.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue background snowflakes
  • white pixelated madison icons
  • four symmetrical asymmetrical snowflakes
  • madison text white snowflake

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four icons arranged in two rows of two

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • madison

Visually Supported Entities

  • madison

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white pixelated snowflakes
  • 'madison' text
  • four icons
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • symmetrical and asymmetrical branches
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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
20090130191246400607439
Archive entry
20090130191246400607439.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090130191246400607439.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090130191246400607439.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016