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Six pixelated icons arranged in a , each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds

Six pixelated icons arranged in a , each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform icon size

Dense Caption

Six pixelated icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: white vertical rectangle on dark blue background. Top-middle: white 'n'-like shape with black outline on cyan background. Top-right: white vertical rectangle with black outline on dark blue background. Bottom-left: white vertical rectangle with black outline and gray top on cyan background. Bottom-middle: white vertical rectangle with black outline on dark blue background. Bottom-right: cyan background with no visible icon. All icons are small, pixelated, and use high-contrast black, white, and blue/cyan colors.

Description

  • Six pixelated icons arranged in a , each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated icons
  • white shapes dark blue cyan backgrounds
  • n-like shape pixel art
  • vertical rectangles black outlines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six pixelated icons arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated icons 2x3 grid

Wordwall

  • pixelated icons
  • white shapes
  • dark blue background
  • cyan background
  • black outlines
  • vertical rectangles
  • n-like shape
  • gray top
  • no icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201002261656431875884288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
3f0c9b51596f44d1
SHA-256
3f0c9b51596f44d18e11ddd81bb3dab6e62868899c9dd71a1ee63b9df84a8eb3
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
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0.098111

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Six pixelated icons arranged in a , each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,951 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,167, response 683

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Colors

  • dark blue
  • cyan
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform icon size

Dense Caption

Six pixelated icons arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left: white vertical rectangle on dark blue background. Top-middle: white 'n'-like shape with black outline on cyan background. Top-right: white vertical rectangle with black outline on dark blue background. Bottom-left: white vertical rectangle with black outline and gray top on cyan background. Bottom-middle: white vertical rectangle with black outline on dark blue background. Bottom-right: cyan background with no visible icon. All icons are small, pixelated, and use high-contrast black, white, and blue/cyan colors.

Description

  • Six pixelated icons arranged in a , each with distinct white shapes on blue or cyan backgrounds

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • pixelated icons
  • white shapes dark blue cyan backgrounds
  • n-like shape pixel art
  • vertical rectangles black outlines

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x3 grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated icons 2x3 grid

Style

  • pixel art
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  • high-contrast

Subjects

  • vertical rectangles
  • n-like shape

Wordwall

  • pixelated icons
  • white shapes
  • dark blue background
  • cyan background
  • black outlines
  • vertical rectangles
  • n-like shape
  • gray top
  • no icon
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
61
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201002261656431875884288
Archive entry
201002261656431875884288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201002261656431875884288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201002261656431875884288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016