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Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text alignment
  • scattered dots
  • solid rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered red dots. Four rows of white text 'Unique' in a grid pattern: first row four 'Unique' labels, second row four 'Unique' labels, third row three 'Unique' labels, fourth row three 'Unique' labels. Gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. No visible animation changes. Text is sans-serif, all capital letters. Red dots are small, scattered, and vary in density. Gray rectangle is solid, opaque, and positioned at the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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

  • black background red dots unique text
  • unique text black background
  • red dots black background gray rectangle
  • text unique black background
  • gray rectangle unique text
  • black background unique text
  • red dots unique text
  • gray rectangle black background red dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a grid pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: four rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: red dots unique text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray rectangle unique text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid unique black background
  • quarantined retrieval: unique text grid black background
  • quarantined retrieval: black background red dots unique text grid

Visible Text

  • Unique

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  • Unique
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  • three
  • bottom-right corner
  • no animation
  • repeated text
  • small dots
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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003041002401979729802
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d33529824132931ff0a9669fc7401e88479bad1ffa38aa07b6db7647af11fad.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
7d33529824132931
SHA-256
7d33529824132931ff0a9669fc7401e88479bad1ffa38aa07b6db7647af11fad
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070853

OpenAI category scores

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

Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 730

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text alignment
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  • solid rectangle

Dense Caption

Black background with scattered red dots. Four rows of white text 'Unique' in a grid pattern: first row four 'Unique' labels, second row four 'Unique' labels, third row three 'Unique' labels, fourth row three 'Unique' labels. Gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. No visible animation changes. Text is sans-serif, all capital letters. Red dots are small, scattered, and vary in density. Gray rectangle is solid, opaque, and positioned at the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Black background with scattered red dots and repeated white text 'Unique' in a pattern, with a gray rectangle in the bottom-right corner

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

  • neutral
  • minimalist

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  • gray rectangle
  • sans-serif text
  • all capital letters
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  • four
  • three
  • bottom-right corner
  • no animation
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  • small dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:18 UTC
Run
61
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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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
201003041002401979729802
Archive entry
201003041002401979729802.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003041002401979729802.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003041002401979729802.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016