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Black-and-white checkered pattern with two overlays showing partial lines and pixelated edges

Black-and-white checkered pattern with two overlays showing partial lines and pixelated edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • overlays shift position
  • lines change visibility
  • pixelated edges shift

Animation Summary

The overlays shift position and visibility across observations, with the upper showing more horizontal lines and the lower showing more vertical lines, while pixelated edges shift between frames

Composition

  • checkered background
  • two overlays
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant

Dense Caption

Black-and-white checkered background composed of uniform square tiles. Two grid overlays appear: one in the upper-right quadrant with horizontal and vertical lines forming a grid, and another in the lower-right quadrant with similar grid lines. Both grid overlays have pixelated edges and partial grid lines, with the upper grid showing more complete horizontal lines and the lower grid showing more complete vertical lines. The grid lines are gray and slightly transparent, overlaying the checkered background. The image has no visible text or additional subjects.

Description

  • Black-and-white checkered pattern with two overlays showing partial lines and pixelated edges

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

  • checkered background overlay
  • black white animation
  • pixelated lines
  • two overlays
  • horizontal vertical lines
  • gray transparent
  • checkered pattern animation
  • shift animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black-and-white checkered pattern with two grid overlays showing partial grid lines and pixelated edges.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The grid overlays shift position and visibility across observations, with the upper grid showing more horizontal lines and the lower grid showing more vertical lines, while pixelated edges shift between frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: transparent grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: partial grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: gray grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: lower-right grid
  • quarantined wordwall: upper-right grid
  • quarantined wordwall: two grid overlays
  • quarantined wordwall: uniform square tiles
  • quarantined style: grid overlay
  • quarantined composition: two grid overlays
  • quarantined animation: grid lines change visibility
  • quarantined animation: grid overlays shift position
  • quarantined retrieval: grid shift animation
  • quarantined retrieval: gray transparent grid
  • quarantined retrieval: horizontal vertical grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: two grid overlays
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: black white grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: checkered background grid overlay

Wordwall

  • black-and-white checkered background
  • uniform square
  • two overlays
  • upper-right
  • lower-right
  • gray lines
  • pixelated edges
  • partial lines
  • horizontal lines
  • vertical lines
  • transparent lines
  • no visible text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080913142819944747411
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/7318d1bafdda4ce8710374d00ffab5f140d3cef375cefae937c1631223e73eef.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
7318d1bafdda4ce8
SHA-256
7318d1bafdda4ce8710374d00ffab5f140d3cef375cefae937c1631223e73eef
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 01:19 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001248

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001248falseself-harm0.000495falsesexual0.000108falseviolence/graphic0.000021falseself-harm/intent0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.160595

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.882089onnx/unsafe0.160595onnx/nsfw0.122551onnx/nsfl0.038044
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white checkered pattern with two overlays showing partial lines and pixelated edges

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,950 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 731

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • lines change visibility (other, 0.80)
  • overlays shift position (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated edges shift (other, 0.80)
  • checkered (style, 0.80)
  • overlay (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • overlays shift position
  • lines change visibility
  • pixelated edges shift

Animation Summary

The overlays shift position and visibility across observations, with the upper showing more horizontal lines and the lower showing more vertical lines, while pixelated edges shift between frames

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • checkered background
  • two overlays
  • upper-right quadrant
  • lower-right quadrant

Dense Caption

Black-and-white checkered background composed of uniform square tiles. Two grid overlays appear: one in the upper-right quadrant with horizontal and vertical lines forming a grid, and another in the lower-right quadrant with similar grid lines. Both grid overlays have pixelated edges and partial grid lines, with the upper grid showing more complete horizontal lines and the lower grid showing more complete vertical lines. The grid lines are gray and slightly transparent, overlaying the checkered background. The image has no visible text or additional subjects.

Description

  • Black-and-white checkered pattern with two overlays showing partial lines and pixelated edges

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

  • checkered background overlay
  • black white animation
  • pixelated lines
  • two overlays
  • horizontal vertical lines
  • gray transparent
  • checkered pattern animation
  • shift animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black-and-white checkered pattern with two grid overlays showing partial grid lines and pixelated edges.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The grid overlays shift position and visibility across observations, with the upper grid showing more horizontal lines and the lower grid showing more vertical lines, while pixelated edges shift between frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: transparent grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: partial grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: gray grid lines
  • quarantined wordwall: lower-right grid
  • quarantined wordwall: upper-right grid
  • quarantined wordwall: two grid overlays
  • quarantined wordwall: uniform square tiles
  • quarantined style: grid overlay
  • quarantined composition: two grid overlays
  • quarantined animation: grid lines change visibility
  • quarantined animation: grid overlays shift position
  • quarantined retrieval: grid shift animation
  • quarantined retrieval: gray transparent grid
  • quarantined retrieval: horizontal vertical grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: two grid overlays
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: black white grid animation
  • quarantined retrieval: checkered background grid overlay

Style

  • checkered
  • overlay
  • pixelated

Wordwall

  • black-and-white checkered background
  • uniform square
  • two overlays
  • upper-right
  • lower-right
  • gray lines
  • pixelated edges
  • partial lines
  • horizontal lines
  • vertical lines
  • transparent lines
  • no visible text
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20080913142819944747411
Archive entry
20080913142819944747411.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#20080913142819944747411.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080913142819944747411.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016