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Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background.

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Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background.

Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Composition

  • centered text
  • abstract background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image with low-resolution rendering. Central black text '1995' in blocky, pixelated font. Background consists of abstract, irregular gray shapes and lines on white. No discernible figures or objects. Text is horizontally centered, positioned slightly above the image's vertical center. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic. No visible motion or animation. No additional text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background.

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

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  • grayscale pixel art 1995
  • 1995 text pixel art
  • grayscale abstract pixel art
  • pixel art 1995
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Visible Text

  • 1995

Wordwall

  • 1995 text
  • grayscale pixel art
  • abstract shapes
  • white background
  • blocky font
  • centered text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281935161948413025
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/5230e5ccfa836e4aa1a3552d8b482962aaeced813059ff04f7ef4ce33458cadc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
5230e5ccfa836e4a
SHA-256
5230e5ccfa836e4aa1a3552d8b482962aaeced813059ff04f7ef4ce33458cadc
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
1346
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000058

OpenAI category scores

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July 27, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
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1201
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:24 UTC
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,699 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 665

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered text
  • abstract background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art image with low-resolution rendering. Central black text '1995' in blocky, pixelated font. Background consists of abstract, irregular gray shapes and lines on white. No discernible figures or objects. Text is horizontally centered, positioned slightly above the image's vertical center. Pixelation creates a retro digital aesthetic. No visible motion or animation. No additional text or symbols present.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image with black text '1995' centered over abstract shapes and lines on a white background.

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

  • 1995 grayscale pixel art
  • grayscale pixel art 1995
  • 1995 text pixel art
  • grayscale abstract pixel art
  • pixel art 1995
  • 1995 abstract pixel art
  • grayscale 1995 pixel art
  • pixel art abstract 1995

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • 1995

Wordwall

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  • grayscale pixel art
  • abstract shapes
  • white background
  • blocky font
  • centered text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
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Version
v5
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Error
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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
200708281935161948413025
Archive entry
200708281935161948413025.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708281935161948413025.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281935161948413025.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016