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four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space

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four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space

four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlaid on background
  • rainbow arch above '2016'

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows 'Star' in cyan text over a black wave silhouette against a blue sky with white clouds. Top-right quadrant shows 'Rider' in purple text over a landscape with green hills, blue sky, and orange-brown terrain. Bottom-left quadrant shows '2016' in blue text with a rainbow arch above it on a black background; below '2016' is partially visible multicolored text. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray square. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering. The image is divided into four equal quadrants.

Description

  • four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • star rider 2016 rainbow
  • cyan star purple rider blue 2016
  • pixelated four quadrant
  • rainbow above 2016 text

Objects

  • background
  • square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four quadrant grid

Uncertain Text

  • multicolored text below '2016'

Visible Text

  • Star
  • Rider
  • 2016

Wordwall

  • cyan 'Star' text
  • purple 'Rider' text
  • blue '2016' text
  • rainbow arch
  • black wave silhouette
  • green hills
  • blue sky
  • orange-brown terrain
  • black background
  • solid gray square
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100408101534502015801
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/85c04171ac7cbd6362bf3173f0a5ea6a0aa0c2208c81319ba9ed8c1571f9f67b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
85c04171ac7cbd63
SHA-256
85c04171ac7cbd6362bf3173f0a5ea6a0aa0c2208c81319ba9ed8c1571f9f67b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109381

OpenAI category scores

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

four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:22 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,040 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 814

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
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  • hills (object, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • square (object, 0.80)
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  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • landscape (subject, 0.80)
  • rainbow (subject, 0.80)
  • wave silhouette (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • blue
  • rainbow
  • black
  • white
  • green
  • orange-brown
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlaid on background
  • rainbow arch above '2016'

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant shows 'Star' in cyan text over a black wave silhouette against a blue sky with white clouds. Top-right quadrant shows 'Rider' in purple text over a landscape with green hills, blue sky, and orange-brown terrain. Bottom-left quadrant shows '2016' in blue text with a rainbow arch above it on a black background; below '2016' is partially visible multicolored text. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray square. All elements are pixelated with low-resolution rendering. The image is divided into four equal quadrants.

Description

  • four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • star rider 2016 rainbow
  • cyan star purple rider blue 2016
  • pixelated four quadrant
  • rainbow above 2016 text

Objects

  • text
  • rainbow
  • wave silhouette
  • landscape
  • sky
  • hills
  • terrain
  • background
  • square

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of four pixelated images with text and symbols: 'Star' over a wave, 'Rider' over a landscape, '2016' with a rainbow, and a blank space.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • wave silhouette
  • rainbow
  • landscape

Uncertain Text

  • multicolored text below '2016'

Visible Text

  • Star
  • Rider
  • 2016

Wordwall

  • cyan 'Star' text
  • purple 'Rider' text
  • blue '2016' text
  • rainbow arch
  • black wave silhouette
  • green hills
  • blue sky
  • orange-brown terrain
  • black background
  • solid gray square
  • pixelated rendering
  • four-quadrant
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:30 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)
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
20100408101534502015801
Archive entry
20100408101534502015801.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#20100408101534502015801.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100408101534502015801.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016