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A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping patterns in light blue

A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping patterns in light blue. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with two overlapping patterns on a checkerboard background

Composition

  • checkerboard background
  • overlapping grids
  • right-side placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a uniform checkerboard background alternating between solid pink and solid cyan squares. Two distinct grid patterns are overlaid on the right side: the upper grid is a 5x5 square grid with light blue lines forming 25 smaller squares, and the lower grid is a 4x4 square grid with light blue lines forming 16 smaller squares. Both grids are positioned on the right half of the image, overlapping slightly with the checkerboard background. The grids are static with no visible animation or movement. No text, symbols, or additional subjects are present in the image.

Description

  • A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping patterns in light blue

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

  • checkerboard background pink cyan
  • light blue patterns
  • overlapping grids static image
  • geometric pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; image is static.
  • quarantined description: A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping grid patterns in light blue.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation present; static image with two overlapping grid patterns on a checkerboard background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: light blue grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue grid patterns

Wordwall

  • checkerboard background
  • pink and cyan squares
  • light blue lines
  • overlapping grids
  • static image
  • no text
  • no subjects
  • uniform pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070817214120743734338
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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/7c/7cbe94620f8c7fa68636cade1b956dadca5288df37940dd4f00641cc2b302298.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
7cbe94620f8c7fa6
SHA-256
7cbe94620f8c7fa68636cade1b956dadca5288df37940dd4f00641cc2b302298
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:14 UTC
Run
1078
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119921

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902332onnx/unsafe0.119921onnx/nsfw0.077605onnx/nsfl0.042316
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping patterns in light blue

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,307 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 597

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with two overlapping patterns on a checkerboard background

Colors

  • pink
  • cyan
  • light blue

Composition

  • checkerboard background
  • overlapping grids
  • right-side placement

Dense Caption

The image displays a static composition with a uniform checkerboard background alternating between solid pink and solid cyan squares. Two distinct grid patterns are overlaid on the right side: the upper grid is a 5x5 square grid with light blue lines forming 25 smaller squares, and the lower grid is a 4x4 square grid with light blue lines forming 16 smaller squares. Both grids are positioned on the right half of the image, overlapping slightly with the checkerboard background. The grids are static with no visible animation or movement. No text, symbols, or additional subjects are present in the image.

Description

  • A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping patterns in light blue

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

  • checkerboard background pink cyan
  • light blue patterns
  • overlapping grids static image
  • geometric pixelated image

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; image is static.
  • quarantined description: A static image with a pink and cyan checkerboard background and two overlapping grid patterns in light blue.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation present; static image with two overlapping grid patterns on a checkerboard background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: 5x5 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: light blue grid lines
  • quarantined retrieval: 5x5 grid 4x4 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: light blue grid patterns

Style

  • geometric
  • minimalist
  • pixelated

Wordwall

  • checkerboard background
  • pink and cyan squares
  • light blue lines
  • overlapping grids
  • static image
  • no text
  • no subjects
  • uniform pattern
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:02 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070817214120743734338
Archive entry
20070817214120743734338.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070817214120743734338.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070817214120743734338.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016