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Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects.

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Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects.

Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • irregular shapes
  • overlapping forms
  • no clear subject
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image with low-resolution rendering. Dominant colors include dark red, white, and gray. White shapes occupy the upper left and upper right areas, with dark red shapes concentrated in the lower left and lower right sections. Gray tones form the background and intermediate areas between colored shapes. No text, facial features, or distinct objects are visible. Composition consists of irregular, overlapping abstract forms with no clear subject or recognizable symbols.

Description

Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708092022221597442542

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dark red white gray pixelated
  • abstract shapes low resolution
  • no text pixelated image
  • gray background dark red white

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • dark red shapes
  • white shapes
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • abstract forms
  • low-resolution
  • no text
  • no recognizable subjects
  • irregular shapes
  • overlapping forms

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708092022221597442542
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7a/7a96e6679e3ad40b7c71593be69de79a953fd34a5513dbce534292bc3e4f3268.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
7a96e6679e3ad40b
SHA-256
7a96e6679e3ad40b7c71593be69de79a953fd34a5513dbce534292bc3e4f3268
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 09:03 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002460

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 03:11 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.116279

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.116279falseviolence/graphic0.085538falseself-harm0.007416falsesexual0.003065falseself-harm/intent0.000259falseself-harm/instructions0.000221falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1066
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.275517

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,741 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 778

Review tags

  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • dark red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • irregular shapes
  • overlapping forms
  • no clear subject
  • gray background

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image with low-resolution rendering. Dominant colors include dark red, white, and gray. White shapes occupy the upper left and upper right areas, with dark red shapes concentrated in the lower left and lower right sections. Gray tones form the background and intermediate areas between colored shapes. No text, facial features, or distinct objects are visible. Composition consists of irregular, overlapping abstract forms with no clear subject or recognizable symbols.

Description

Pixelated static image showing abstract white and dark red shapes against a gray background with no discernible text or recognizable subjects.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708092022221597442542

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • abstract shapes low resolution
  • no text pixelated image
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Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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  • abstract

Wordwall

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:05 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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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
200708092022221597442542
Archive entry
200708092022221597442542.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708092022221597442542.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708092022221597442542.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016