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Black-and-white image of a street scene with a tall tower, a lamppost, and a large vehicle on a road.

Black-and-white image of a street scene with a tall tower, a lamppost, and a large vehicle on a road. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical lamppost on left
  • tower in background
  • vehicle on road

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a street scene with a tall tower in the background, a vertical lamppost on the left, and a large vehicle resembling a bus or truck on a road. The vehicle has visible windows and a rounded front. The background includes indistinct shapes suggesting buildings or structures. The image has a grainy texture typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a street scene with a tall tower, a lamppost, and a large vehicle on a road.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200909081346431552256068

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • street scene black-and-white
  • tall tower lamppost vehicle
  • grayscale low-resolution
  • road vehicle tower

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • street scene
  • tall tower
  • lamppost
  • large vehicle
  • black-and-white
  • grainy texture
  • low-resolution
  • road
  • indistinct background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909081346431552256068
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
3b9f442d7375b8f6
SHA-256
3b9f442d7375b8f612038dbdbc31e04120dc8ede198129c2e50ebfba97a52760
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000505

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 13:34 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023431

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.023431falseself-harm0.010264falseviolence/graphic0.001577falsesexual0.000747falseself-harm/intent0.000252falseself-harm/instructions0.000222falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.766310

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black-and-white image of a street scene with a tall tower, a lamppost, and a large vehicle on a road.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,117 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 721

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • static (mood, 0.80)
  • road (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • lamppost (subject, 0.80)
  • street (subject, 0.80)
  • tower (subject, 0.80)
  • vehicle (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical lamppost on left
  • tower in background
  • vehicle on road

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a street scene with a tall tower in the background, a vertical lamppost on the left, and a large vehicle resembling a bus or truck on a road. The vehicle has visible windows and a rounded front. The background includes indistinct shapes suggesting buildings or structures. The image has a grainy texture typical of low-resolution digital art.

Description

  • Black-and-white image of a street scene with a tall tower, a lamppost, and a large vehicle on a road.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200909081346431552256068

Mood

  • neutral
  • static

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • street scene black-and-white
  • tall tower lamppost vehicle
  • grayscale low-resolution
  • road vehicle tower

Objects

  • tower
  • lamppost
  • vehicle
  • road

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single static frame with no visible animation changes

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • street
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  • lamppost
  • vehicle

Wordwall

  • street scene
  • tall tower
  • lamppost
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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
200909081346431552256068
Archive entry
200909081346431552256068.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909081346431552256068.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909081346431552256068.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016