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Pixelated static image shows dark vertical shapes against light background with faint horizontal lines and subtle color gradients.

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Pixelated static image shows dark vertical shapes against light background with faint horizontal lines and subtle color gradients.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical elements dominant
  • horizontal bands in background
  • ground cover at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image displays multiple dark vertical forms resembling tree trunks or poles. Light grayish-blue background contains faint horizontal bands of lighter and darker shades. Lower portion has muted brown-green tones suggesting ground cover. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals overall composition with vertical elements dominating the frame against a pale backdrop.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows dark vertical shapes against light background with faint horizontal lines and subtle color gradients.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806010732321503179557
  • 20080601073733859557929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated vertical shapes blue background
  • low-resolution tree-like forms gray ground
  • static image dark vertical elements light backdrop
  • muted brown-green base pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • vertical shapes
  • light blue-gray background
  • faint horizontal lines
  • muted brown-green base
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806010732321503179557
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080601073733859557929
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/3937325f8e1e47f1ad76a62930a8bb71d0f88c04d629d24817d5d5ffed05683f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
3937325f8e1e47f1
SHA-256
3937325f8e1e47f1ad76a62930a8bb71d0f88c04d629d24817d5d5ffed05683f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107926

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image shows dark vertical shapes against light background with faint horizontal lines and subtle color gradients.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 21:11 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,103 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 655

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dark vertical forms (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • brown
  • green

Composition

  • vertical elements dominant
  • horizontal bands in background
  • ground cover at bottom

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image displays multiple dark vertical forms resembling tree trunks or poles. Light grayish-blue background contains faint horizontal bands of lighter and darker shades. Lower portion has muted brown-green tones suggesting ground cover. Pixelation obscures fine details but reveals overall composition with vertical elements dominating the frame against a pale backdrop.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows dark vertical shapes against light background with faint horizontal lines and subtle color gradients.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806010732321503179557
  • 20080601073733859557929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated vertical shapes blue background
  • low-resolution tree-like forms gray ground
  • static image dark vertical elements light backdrop
  • muted brown-green base pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-quality

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • dark vertical forms

Wordwall

  • vertical shapes
  • light blue-gray background
  • faint horizontal lines
  • muted brown-green base
  • pixelated rendering
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Full source records (2)

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
200806010732321503179557
Archive entry
200806010732321503179557.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200806010732321503179557.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806010732321503179557.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080601073733859557929
Archive entry
20080601073733859557929.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080601073733859557929.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080601073733859557929.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016