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Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion.

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Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion.

Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical stripes
  • repeating color sequence
  • partial repetition in lower-left
  • large gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a test pattern composed of vertical color bars. From left to right: bright yellow stripe, light cyan stripe, vivid green stripe, intense magenta stripe, deep red stripe, followed by alternating black and white stripes with purple accents. The lower-left section shows partial repetition of the top color bar sequence but with visible pixelation and distortion in the bottom row. A large gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the image.

Description

  • Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2009031616285984557963

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • color bars test pattern
  • vertical stripes yellow cyan green magenta red
  • pixelated distortion gray rectangle

Wordwall

  • vertical color bars
  • yellow cyan green magenta red
  • black white purple stripes
  • pixelated distortion
  • gray rectangle on right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009031616285984557963
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4bd24d87ba42fff21c35fad3605918f2d3e8ce169eb872cb18fed29e8e1856f6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
4bd24d87ba42fff2
SHA-256
4bd24d87ba42fff21c35fad3605918f2d3e8ce169eb872cb18fed29e8e1856f6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115703

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.884297onnx/unsafe0.115703onnx/nsfw0.081431onnx/nsfl0.034272
Enrichment records (1)
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Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,712 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • test pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • cyan
  • green
  • magenta
  • red
  • white
  • purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical stripes
  • repeating color sequence
  • partial repetition in lower-left
  • large gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a test pattern composed of vertical color bars. From left to right: bright yellow stripe, light cyan stripe, vivid green stripe, intense magenta stripe, deep red stripe, followed by alternating black and white stripes with purple accents. The lower-left section shows partial repetition of the top color bar sequence but with visible pixelation and distortion in the bottom row. A large gray rectangular area occupies the right side of the image.

Description

  • Color bars with vertical stripes in yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, and black sections, some areas showing pixelated distortion.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2009031616285984557963

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • color bars test pattern
  • vertical stripes yellow cyan green magenta red
  • pixelated distortion gray rectangle

Style

  • test pattern
  • pixelated

Wordwall

  • vertical color bars
  • yellow cyan green magenta red
  • black white purple stripes
  • pixelated distortion
  • gray rectangle on right
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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
2009031616285984557963
Archive entry
2009031616285984557963.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#2009031616285984557963.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009031616285984557963.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016