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A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

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A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated…

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Animation

  • transitions from black-and-white building facade to grayscale person holding shape to multicolored pixelated pattern

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct visual states: a black-and-white building facade, a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, and a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

Composition

  • building facade
  • person on bench
  • abstract shape
  • pixelated pattern

Dense Caption

The animation begins with a black-and-white view of a building facade featuring a rectangular window with multiple panes and a dark door with a vertical handle. The scene transitions to a grayscale image of a person seated on a bench, holding a colorful abstract shape composed of cyan, red, yellow, and purple segments. The final frame shows a vibrant, multicolored pixelated pattern with red, cyan, green, yellow, and purple hues, with partial white and black areas visible at the bottom left.

Description

A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

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

  • building facade window door
  • person holding abstract shape
  • multicolored pixelated pattern
  • black-and-white to grayscale to multicolored
  • cyan red yellow purple shape
  • grayscale person bench
  • vibrant pixelated pattern
  • building facade transition

Objects

  • abstract shape

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • black-and-white building facade
  • window with multiple panes
  • dark door with vertical handle
  • grayscale person on bench
  • person holding cyan-red-yellow-purple shape
  • vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern
  • red cyan green yellow purple hues

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090608155528237506776
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
7eb7f955f42b6459
SHA-256
7eb7f955f42b645905427b3335d1aa811df21fb4043b5d3c78af99aa7bdb389e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 03:13 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023171

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1087
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.169235

OpenAI category scores

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A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,726 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 819

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • transitioning (action, 0.80)
  • bench (object, 0.80)
  • door (object, 0.80)
  • window (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • multicolored (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)
  • building facade (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • pixelated pattern (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • transitioning

Animation

  • transitions from black-and-white building facade to grayscale person holding shape to multicolored pixelated pattern

Animation Summary

The animation transitions through three distinct visual states: a black-and-white building facade, a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, and a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • cyan
  • red
  • yellow
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • building facade
  • person on bench
  • abstract shape
  • pixelated pattern

Dense Caption

The animation begins with a black-and-white view of a building facade featuring a rectangular window with multiple panes and a dark door with a vertical handle. The scene transitions to a grayscale image of a person seated on a bench, holding a colorful abstract shape composed of cyan, red, yellow, and purple segments. The final frame shows a vibrant, multicolored pixelated pattern with red, cyan, green, yellow, and purple hues, with partial white and black areas visible at the bottom left.

Description

A black-and-white building facade with a window and door transitions to a grayscale scene with a person holding a colorful abstract shape, then to a vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern.

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
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • person holding abstract shape
  • multicolored pixelated pattern
  • black-and-white to grayscale to multicolored
  • cyan red yellow purple shape
  • grayscale person bench
  • vibrant pixelated pattern
  • building facade transition

Objects

  • window
  • door
  • bench
  • abstract shape
  • pixelated pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • multicolored

Subjects

  • building facade
  • person
  • abstract shape
  • pixelated pattern

Wordwall

  • black-and-white building facade
  • window with multiple panes
  • dark door with vertical handle
  • grayscale person on bench
  • person holding cyan-red-yellow-purple shape
  • vibrant multicolored pixelated pattern
  • red cyan green yellow purple hues
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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
20090608155528237506776
Archive entry
20090608155528237506776.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090608155528237506776.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090608155528237506776.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016