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Static pixel art icon with blue text and white decorative borders on a black background.

Static pixel art icon with blue text and white decorative borders on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text
  • dashed white lines separating sections
  • star-like corner elements

Dense Caption

Black background with four identical quadrants separated by dashed white lines. Each quadrant contains centered blue text: 'XXX' at top, 'PrEtTy' in middle (with capital P, e, t, y), 'InDiE' below it (capital I, n, D, i, E), and 'XXX' at bottom. White decorative borders with star-like corner elements frame the entire icon.

Description

  • Static pixel art icon with blue text and white decorative borders on a black 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809161910591309995204

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text black background white borders
  • PrEtTy InDiE XXX icon
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • text-based symmetrical icon

Visible Text

  • XXX
  • PrEtTy
  • InDiE

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue text
  • white decorative borders
  • four quadrants
  • dashed white lines
  • 'XXX' top/bottom
  • 'PrEtTy' middle
  • 'InDiE' below 'PrEtTy'
  • star-like corner elements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809161910591309995204
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
453 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/36/36a6e7b1fb028638bf668bb68556803288b508ee9783dff4ffdae1eac17c223d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
36a6e7b1fb028638
SHA-256
36a6e7b1fb028638bf668bb68556803288b508ee9783dff4ffdae1eac17c223d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 00:41 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.243975

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.243975falsesexual/minors0.000169falseharassment0.000033falsehate0.000009falseillicit0.000005falseviolence0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseself-harm0.000003falseharassment/threatening0.000003falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/sexual1.000000textenrichment/visual/sexual0.500000image
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
0.091583

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910483onnx/unsafe0.091583onnx/nsfw0.053719onnx/nsfl0.037864
Enrichment records (1)
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Static pixel art icon with blue text and white decorative borders on a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,874 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 639

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • centered text
  • dashed white lines separating sections
  • star-like corner elements

Dense Caption

Black background with four identical quadrants separated by dashed white lines. Each quadrant contains centered blue text: 'XXX' at top, 'PrEtTy' in middle (with capital P, e, t, y), 'InDiE' below it (capital I, n, D, i, E), and 'XXX' at bottom. White decorative borders with star-like corner elements frame the entire icon.

Description

  • Static pixel art icon with blue text and white decorative borders on a black 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809161910591309995204

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue text black background white borders
  • PrEtTy InDiE XXX icon
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • text-based symmetrical icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • XXX
  • PrEtTy
  • InDiE

Wordwall

  • black background
  • blue text
  • white decorative borders
  • four quadrants
  • dashed white lines
  • 'XXX' top/bottom
  • 'PrEtTy' middle
  • 'InDiE' below 'PrEtTy'
  • star-like corner elements
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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
200809161910591309995204
Archive entry
200809161910591309995204.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809161910591309995204.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809161910591309995204.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016