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A pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green background.

A pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered cross
  • shield shape
  • green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green background. The shield has a slightly irregular outline with a small protrusion on the left side. The red cross is composed of solid red pixels with a subtle darker red outline. The background is a uniform green color with a pixelated texture. The overall image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white shield red cross green background
  • pixelated shield red cross
  • low-resolution red cross shield
  • green background white shield red cross

Wordwall

  • white shield
  • red cross
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
  • irregular outline
  • small protrusion
  • solid red pixels
  • darker red outline
  • uniform green
  • pixelated texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708240104281739161079
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/368d19323624c08b86f812ed4933774e2fa61e06337b28aee565604442ae68fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
368d19323624c08b
SHA-256
368d19323624c08b86f812ed4933774e2fa61e06337b28aee565604442ae68fa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.057795

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,235 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 576

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cross (subject, 0.80)
  • shield (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • green

Composition

  • centered cross
  • shield shape
  • green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green background. The shield has a slightly irregular outline with a small protrusion on the left side. The red cross is composed of solid red pixels with a subtle darker red outline. The background is a uniform green color with a pixelated texture. The overall image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated white shield shape with a red cross centered on it, set against a green 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white shield red cross green background
  • pixelated shield red cross
  • low-resolution red cross shield
  • green background white shield red cross

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • shield
  • cross

Wordwall

  • white shield
  • red cross
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
  • irregular outline
  • small protrusion
  • solid red pixels
  • darker red outline
  • uniform green
  • pixelated texture
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708240104281739161079
Archive entry
200708240104281739161079.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708240104281739161079.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708240104281739161079.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016