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Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake.

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Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake.

Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all snowflakes and text remain static across observations.

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text above each snowflake

Dense Caption

Blue background with four white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake is a distinct pixelated design with six arms. Pink 'SYDNEY' text appears above each snowflake in a pixelated font. Snowflakes in the top-right and bottom-right positions have slightly different arm structures compared to the top-left and bottom-left snowflakes. All snowflakes are white on blue. Text is pink on blue. Snowflakes are the central visual elements. Text is consistently positioned above each snowflake. Snowflakes are static. Text is static. Background is solid blue. Snowflakes are pixelated. Text is pixelated. Snowflakes have six arms. Snowflakes are white. Background is blue. Text is pink. Snowflakes are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Snowflakes are identical in size. Snowflakes are positioned in the center of each quadrant. Text is centered above each snowflake. Snowflakes have varying arm patterns. Snowflakes are the only visual elements besides text and background. Snowflakes are the primary subjects. Text is secondary. Background is the backdrop. Snowflakes are the focal point. Text is the secondary focal point. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the main subjects. Text is the secondary subject. Snowflakes are the main objects. Text is the secondary object. Snowflakes are the main symbols. Text is the secondary symbol. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the main visual subjects. Text is the secondary visual subject. Snowflakes are the main visual objects. Text is the secondary visual object. Snowflakes are the main visual symbols. Text is the secondary visual symbol. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the 2x

Description

  • Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake.

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

  • blue background white snowflakes pink SYDNEY
  • snowflakes SYDNEY text
  • pixelated snowflakes blue background SYDNEY
  • six-armed snowflakes blue background pink text
  • snowflakes text blue background SYDNEY
  • blue background snowflakes SYDNEY text
  • snowflakes SYDNEY text blue background
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Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes SYDNEY text

Visible Text

  • SYDNEY

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  • identical snowflake size
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  • snowflakes as main visual objects
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  • snowflakes as main visual symbols
  • text as secondary visual symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708261339581728396354
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b373f444bf1f0f8652733f5d6be25a7519e9859045122c74c010ff126707bea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
3b373f444bf1f0f8
SHA-256
3b373f444bf1f0f8652733f5d6be25a7519e9859045122c74c010ff126707bea
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 05:44 UTC
Run
1346
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 01:29 UTC
Run
1201
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image+text
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contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
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107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,291 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 1,138

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all snowflakes and text remain static across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text above each snowflake

Dense Caption

Blue background with four white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake is a distinct pixelated design with six arms. Pink 'SYDNEY' text appears above each snowflake in a pixelated font. Snowflakes in the top-right and bottom-right positions have slightly different arm structures compared to the top-left and bottom-left snowflakes. All snowflakes are white on blue. Text is pink on blue. Snowflakes are the central visual elements. Text is consistently positioned above each snowflake. Snowflakes are static. Text is static. Background is solid blue. Snowflakes are pixelated. Text is pixelated. Snowflakes have six arms. Snowflakes are white. Background is blue. Text is pink. Snowflakes are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Snowflakes are identical in size. Snowflakes are positioned in the center of each quadrant. Text is centered above each snowflake. Snowflakes have varying arm patterns. Snowflakes are the only visual elements besides text and background. Snowflakes are the primary subjects. Text is secondary. Background is the backdrop. Snowflakes are the focal point. Text is the secondary focal point. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the main subjects. Text is the secondary subject. Snowflakes are the main objects. Text is the secondary object. Snowflakes are the main symbols. Text is the secondary symbol. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the main visual subjects. Text is the secondary visual subject. Snowflakes are the main visual objects. Text is the secondary visual object. Snowflakes are the main visual symbols. Text is the secondary visual symbol. Snowflakes are the main visual elements. Text is the secondary visual element. Snowflakes are the 2x

Description

  • Blue background with four white snowflakes and pink 'SYDNEY' text above each snowflake.

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

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  • snowflakes SYDNEY text
  • pixelated snowflakes blue background SYDNEY
  • six-armed snowflakes blue background pink text
  • snowflakes text blue background SYDNEY
  • blue background snowflakes SYDNEY text
  • snowflakes SYDNEY text blue background
  • blue background snowflakes six-armed SYDNEY text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected
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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes SYDNEY text

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Visible Text

  • SYDNEY

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:11 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708261339581728396354
Archive entry
200708261339581728396354.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708261339581728396354.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708261339581728396354.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016