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Black background with scattered white plus signs of varying sizes, some appearing as small dots.

Black background with scattered white plus signs of varying sizes, some appearing as small dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • no central focus

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by multiple white plus signs. The plus signs vary in size: larger ones have four equal-length arms extending from the center, while smaller versions appear as single pixels or tiny clusters. These elements are distributed across the entire frame without any discernible pattern or grouping. No text, symbols beyond the plus signs, or additional colors are present.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white plus signs of varying sizes, some appearing as small dots.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803121024021967930749

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white plus signs
  • scattered plus signs varying sizes
  • white dots black background
  • pixelated plus sign pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; all claims must be pixel-supported

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white plus signs
  • varying sizes
  • small dots
  • scattered distribution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803121024021967930749
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
463 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b3deaa0f1ab901fa981b702f2fb991be5dff5e528ec228c7378e2eca5e6d625.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
3b3deaa0f1ab901f
SHA-256
3b3deaa0f1ab901fa981b702f2fb991be5dff5e528ec228c7378e2eca5e6d625
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000013

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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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 (1)
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Black background with scattered white plus signs of varying sizes, some appearing as small dots.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,797 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 590

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • plus signs (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • scattered elements
  • no central focus

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background populated by multiple white plus signs. The plus signs vary in size: larger ones have four equal-length arms extending from the center, while smaller versions appear as single pixels or tiny clusters. These elements are distributed across the entire frame without any discernible pattern or grouping. No text, symbols beyond the plus signs, or additional colors are present.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white plus signs of varying sizes, some appearing as small dots.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200803121024021967930749

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white plus signs
  • scattered plus signs varying sizes
  • white dots black background
  • pixelated plus sign pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; all claims must be pixel-supported

Style

  • minimalist
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • plus signs

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white plus signs
  • varying sizes
  • small dots
  • scattered distribution
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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
200803121024021967930749
Archive entry
200803121024021967930749.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#200803121024021967930749.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803121024021967930749.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016