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A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray.

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A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray.

A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • diagonal light beam
  • grid pattern

Dense Caption

The image is a static grayscale composition with a high level of pixelation. A bright diagonal light beam originates from the upper-left corner, extending toward the lower-right. The background consists of a grid of square pixels in varying shades of gray, creating a patterned texture. No distinct subjects, text, or recognizable objects are visible; the image appears to be an abstract or heavily pixelated representation of a light source interacting with a grid structure. The overall visual effect is monochromatic and lacks clear identifiable features beyond the light beam and grid pattern.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • grayscale pixelated light beam grid
  • diagonal light beam abstract grid
  • pixelated grayscale composition light beam
  • grayscale grid light beam pattern
  • abstract pixelated light beam grid structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with no discernible details beyond light beam and grid

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • diagonal light beam
  • grid structure
  • shades of gray
  • abstract composition
  • no text
  • no subjects
  • monochromatic
  • high pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011011916121777643185
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4f/4f23ae8d88e647fa928cc6d6912f1a4196ae2e94e3cd436e08e21ae0b6b72b17.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
4f23ae8d88e647fa
SHA-256
4f23ae8d88e647fa928cc6d6912f1a4196ae2e94e3cd436e08e21ae0b6b72b17
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 22:24 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000017

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000017falseillicit0.000008falsesexual0.000008falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseharassment0.000006falseself-harm0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000002falsehate0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/self-harm0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000525

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000525falsesexual0.000025falseself-harm0.000013falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.152270

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.847730onnx/unsafe0.152270onnx/nsfl0.098318onnx/nsfw0.053952
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 22:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,329 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 707

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • diagonal light beam
  • grid pattern

Dense Caption

The image is a static grayscale composition with a high level of pixelation. A bright diagonal light beam originates from the upper-left corner, extending toward the lower-right. The background consists of a grid of square pixels in varying shades of gray, creating a patterned texture. No distinct subjects, text, or recognizable objects are visible; the image appears to be an abstract or heavily pixelated representation of a light source interacting with a grid structure. The overall visual effect is monochromatic and lacks clear identifiable features beyond the light beam and grid pattern.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image shows a diagonal light beam cutting across a grid-like structure with varying shades of gray.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • grayscale pixelated light beam grid
  • diagonal light beam abstract grid
  • pixelated grayscale composition light beam
  • grayscale grid light beam pattern
  • abstract pixelated light beam grid structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image with no discernible details beyond light beam and grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • diagonal light beam
  • grid structure
  • shades of gray
  • abstract composition
  • no text
  • no subjects
  • monochromatic
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:22 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)
Raw JSON
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
2011011916121777643185
Archive entry
2011011916121777643185.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#2011011916121777643185.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011011916121777643185.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016