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A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit.

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A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit.

A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is split into four quadrants on a dark blue background. Top-left quadrant shows a grayscale pixelated image of a drum kit with visible cymbals and drum shells. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "I PLAY DRUMS". Bottom-left quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "HOW ABOUT YOU". Bottom-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "ROCK ON !". All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit.

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

  • drum kit pixel art
  • I PLAY DRUMS text
  • ROCK ON ! text
  • buddy icon drum kit
  • how about you text
  • retro digital font
  • four quadrant layout
  • dark blue background

Visible Text

  • I PLAY DRUMS
  • HOW ABOUT YOU
  • ROCK ON !

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • grayscale drum kit
  • pixelated text
  • I PLAY DRUMS
  • HOW ABOUT YOU
  • ROCK ON !
  • blocky digital font
  • low resolution
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822143034378724405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/75514cb6f1f7768dbb6d297b373fe5692a38f8d87850fb5f47514e615d1bf052.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
75514cb6f1f7768d
SHA-256
75514cb6f1f7768dbb6d297b373fe5692a38f8d87850fb5f47514e615d1bf052
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103588

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,643 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 707

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • drum kit (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image is split into four quadrants on a dark blue background. Top-left quadrant shows a grayscale pixelated image of a drum kit with visible cymbals and drum shells. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "I PLAY DRUMS". Bottom-left quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "HOW ABOUT YOU". Bottom-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "ROCK ON !". All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A static image with a dark blue background divided into four sections containing pixelated text and a grayscale image of a drum kit.

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

Mood

  • enthusiastic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • drum kit pixel art
  • I PLAY DRUMS text
  • ROCK ON ! text
  • buddy icon drum kit
  • how about you text
  • retro digital font
  • four quadrant layout
  • dark blue background

Objects

  • drum kit

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • drum kit

Visible Text

  • I PLAY DRUMS
  • HOW ABOUT YOU
  • ROCK ON !

Wordwall

  • dark blue background
  • grayscale drum kit
  • pixelated text
  • I PLAY DRUMS
  • HOW ABOUT YOU
  • ROCK ON !
  • blocky digital font
  • low resolution
  • four quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:41 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070822143034378724405
Archive entry
20070822143034378724405.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822143034378724405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822143034378724405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016