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Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border.

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Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border.

Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border. Animated 50×50 GIF AI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical static content.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant division
  • central shield
  • wreath framing

Dense Caption

Four-quadrant shield design with black-and-white pixelation. Top-left quadrant: white background with black umbrella symbol. Top-right quadrant: black background with white lightning bolt symbol. Bottom-left quadrant: black background with white skull symbol. Bottom-right quadrant: white background with black snake symbol. Entire shield bordered by laurel wreath with decorative scrollwork. Top of shield features ornate crown-like element. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. All four quadrants maintain consistent symbol placement and color scheme across all visible frames.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant shield
  • umbrella lightning bolt skull snake
  • laurel wreath shield
  • pixelated monochrome icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • All visible frames show identical content; no animation changes detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-supported claims

Subjects

  • skull

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant shield
  • umbrella symbol
  • lightning bolt symbol
  • skull symbol
  • snake symbol
  • laurel wreath border
  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • ornate crown
  • scrollwork

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808301339121613020332
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/6385e5c2fd8cc480e5218bc58110e4493071a634c204067aff402ecff76e5346.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
6385e5c2fd8cc480
SHA-256
6385e5c2fd8cc480e5218bc58110e4493071a634c204067aff402ecff76e5346
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070714

OpenAI category scores

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Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,306 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 717

Review tags

  • crown (object, 0.80)
  • laurel wreath (object, 0.80)
  • scrollwork (object, 0.80)
  • shield (object, 0.80)
  • heraldic (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • lightning bolt (subject, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)
  • snake (subject, 0.80)
  • umbrella (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames show identical static content.

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant division
  • central shield
  • wreath framing

Dense Caption

Four-quadrant shield design with black-and-white pixelation. Top-left quadrant: white background with black umbrella symbol. Top-right quadrant: black background with white lightning bolt symbol. Bottom-left quadrant: black background with white skull symbol. Bottom-right quadrant: white background with black snake symbol. Entire shield bordered by laurel wreath with decorative scrollwork. Top of shield features ornate crown-like element. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. All four quadrants maintain consistent symbol placement and color scheme across all visible frames.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated icon with four quadrants showing umbrella, lightning bolt, skull, and snake symbols, framed by laurel wreath and decorative border.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • mysterious
  • gothic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four quadrant shield
  • umbrella lightning bolt skull snake
  • laurel wreath shield
  • pixelated monochrome icon

Objects

  • shield
  • laurel wreath
  • crown
  • scrollwork

Preprocessing Notes

  • All visible frames show identical content; no animation changes detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-supported claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • monochrome
  • heraldic

Subjects

  • umbrella
  • lightning bolt
  • skull
  • snake

Wordwall

  • four-quadrant shield
  • umbrella symbol
  • lightning bolt symbol
  • skull symbol
  • snake symbol
  • laurel wreath border
  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • ornate crown
  • scrollwork
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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
200808301339121613020332
Archive entry
200808301339121613020332.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808301339121613020332.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808301339121613020332.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016