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Four distinct static images arranged in a , each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and subjects

Four distinct static images arranged in a , each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and subjects. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: A grayscale pier extends into bright cyan water under a cloudy sky. Top-right: A grayscale stone wall with a pink flower in the foreground. Bottom-left: A grayscale alleyway with a rainbow-colored cone-shaped object. Bottom-right: A grayscale pathway with a central vertical line and two rounded shapes. All four images are static and displayed in a grid layout.

Description

  • Four distinct static images arranged in a , each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and 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 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

  • pier cyan water
  • stone wall pink flower
  • alleyway rainbow cone
  • pathway vertical line
  • static images
  • grayscale color accents
  • pier water sky
  • stone wall flower

Objects

  • flower

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct static images arranged in a 2x2 grid, each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and subjects.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid static images

Wordwall

  • pier
  • cyan water
  • cloudy sky
  • stone wall
  • pink flower
  • alleyway
  • rainbow cone
  • pathway
  • vertical line
  • rounded shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100426145732428068410
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/833902c82c21eda92674a09de4c9b9a1578e37de9d5c507cb5df4838aff4c771.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
833902c82c21eda9
SHA-256
833902c82c21eda92674a09de4c9b9a1578e37de9d5c507cb5df4838aff4c771
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 01:32 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.185001

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.185001falsesexual0.096752falseself-harm0.096228falseviolence/graphic0.008947falseself-harm/intent0.004600falseself-harm/instructions0.000364falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1109
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.180825

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926635onnx/unsafe0.180825onnx/nsfl0.098268onnx/nsfw0.082557
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four distinct static images arranged in a , each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and subjects

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,780 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 657

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • cone (object, 0.80)
  • flower (object, 0.80)
  • color accents (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • alleyway (subject, 0.80)
  • pathway (subject, 0.80)
  • pier (subject, 0.80)
  • stone wall (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • cyan
  • pink
  • rainbow

Composition

  • varied backgrounds

Dense Caption

Top-left: A grayscale pier extends into bright cyan water under a cloudy sky. Top-right: A grayscale stone wall with a pink flower in the foreground. Bottom-left: A grayscale alleyway with a rainbow-colored cone-shaped object. Bottom-right: A grayscale pathway with a central vertical line and two rounded shapes. All four images are static and displayed in a grid layout.

Description

  • Four distinct static images arranged in a , each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and 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 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

  • pier cyan water
  • stone wall pink flower
  • alleyway rainbow cone
  • pathway vertical line
  • static images
  • grayscale color accents
  • pier water sky
  • stone wall flower

Objects

  • flower
  • cone

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct static images arranged in a 2x2 grid, each depicting different scenes with varied color palettes and subjects.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid static images

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • color accents

Subjects

  • pier
  • stone wall
  • alleyway
  • pathway

Wordwall

  • pier
  • cyan water
  • cloudy sky
  • stone wall
  • pink flower
  • alleyway
  • rainbow cone
  • pathway
  • vertical line
  • rounded shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:37 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20100426145732428068410
Archive entry
20100426145732428068410.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#20100426145732428068410.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100426145732428068410.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016