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Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center.

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Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center.

Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central text placement
  • scattered circle arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered pixelated circles in cyan, light green, pink, purple, yellow, and red. Large bold white sans-serif text spelling 'Sydney' spans horizontally across the middle of the image. Circles vary slightly in size but maintain consistent pixelation throughout. No visible motion or animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sydney text pixelated circles
  • black background multicolored circles sydney
  • pixelated cyan green pink purple yellow red circles

Visible Text

  • Sydney

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sydney

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • light green circles
  • pink circles
  • purple circles
  • yellow circles
  • red circles
  • white text 'Sydney'
  • pixelated circles
  • scattered circle arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080920144051751514178
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/76/76c6ce82ffd5c24642489e9b2f751cdc2b04da9d6a74c524193a0576db114831.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
76c6ce82ffd5c246
SHA-256
76c6ce82ffd5c24642489e9b2f751cdc2b04da9d6a74c524193a0576db114831
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 01:06 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000039

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 23:35 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000511

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000511falseself-harm0.000454falsesexual0.000073falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:02 UTC
Run
1045
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.146110

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.853890onnx/unsafe0.146110onnx/nsfw0.115632onnx/nsfl0.030478
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Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,618 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 560

Review tags

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  • light green (color, 0.80)
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  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • graphic design (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • light green
  • pink
  • purple
  • yellow
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • central text placement
  • scattered circle arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background filled with scattered pixelated circles in cyan, light green, pink, purple, yellow, and red. Large bold white sans-serif text spelling 'Sydney' spans horizontally across the middle of the image. Circles vary slightly in size but maintain consistent pixelation throughout. No visible motion or animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated image with black background and multicolored circles, featuring large white text reading 'Sydney' across the center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sydney text pixelated circles
  • black background multicolored circles sydney
  • pixelated cyan green pink purple yellow red circles

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • graphic design

Subjects

  • text
  • circles

Visible Text

  • Sydney

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sydney

Wordwall

  • black background
  • cyan circles
  • light green circles
  • pink circles
  • purple circles
  • yellow circles
  • red circles
  • white text 'Sydney'
  • pixelated circles
  • scattered circle arrangement
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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
20080920144051751514178
Archive entry
20080920144051751514178.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080920144051751514178.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080920144051751514178.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016