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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark backgrounds.

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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark backgrounds.

Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark backgrounds. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed in this single frame

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

Four-quadrant pixelated image: top-left displays partial white block letters 'REPO' over black background; top-right shows side profile of man with short hair against teal backdrop; bottom-left features blue infinity symbol on dark textured surface; bottom-right is solid light gray. All elements are low-resolution, cropped to square format.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090706191927383609225

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • REPO infinity symbol man side profile

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this single frame
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • REPO

Wordwall

  • REPO
  • infinity symbol
  • teal backdrop
  • dark textured surface
  • light gray quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090706191927383609225
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/675a5a9a95ef7a155bea6f2fe6d0d354cbf6daf80fc14723800bc4a9668ef4fd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
675a5a9a95ef7a15
SHA-256
675a5a9a95ef7a155bea6f2fe6d0d354cbf6daf80fc14723800bc4a9668ef4fd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114670

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924560onnx/unsafe0.114670onnx/nsfl0.058745onnx/nsfw0.055925
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Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,234 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 521

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • infinity symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant composition (style, 0.80)
  • man side profile (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed in this single frame

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • teal
  • blue
  • gray
  • dark brown

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

Four-quadrant pixelated image: top-left displays partial white block letters 'REPO' over black background; top-right shows side profile of man with short hair against teal backdrop; bottom-left features blue infinity symbol on dark textured surface; bottom-right is solid light gray. All elements are low-resolution, cropped to square format.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with four quadrants showing text, a person's face, and abstract shapes on dark 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090706191927383609225

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • REPO infinity symbol man side profile

Objects

  • infinity symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this single frame
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • quadrant composition

Subjects

  • man (side profile)

Visible Text

  • REPO

Wordwall

  • REPO
  • infinity symbol
  • teal backdrop
  • dark textured surface
  • light gray quadrant
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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
20090706191927383609225
Archive entry
20090706191927383609225.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090706191927383609225.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090706191927383609225.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016