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Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen.

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Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen.

Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Source terms

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text top-left and bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue and gold figure wearing a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' in top-left and blue '3' in bottom-right. The figure's pose is static with no visible motion changes. Background is brown. Colors include blue, gold, brown, and black. Text is rendered in blocky pixel font. The figure's clothing is blue with gold accents. The object held is golden and rounded. The text 'boost' has a small symbol next to it. The number '3' is large and bold. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen.

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

  • boost 3 figure
  • blue gold pixelated figure
  • golden object cap
  • boost text 3 text
  • pixelated retro digital figure

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • boost
  • 3

Wordwall

  • blue and gold figure
  • cap
  • golden object
  • boost text
  • 3 text
  • brown background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • blue clothing
  • gold accents
  • static pose
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100514125552194852420
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
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/85fc4207b822235b466e61c076128964ea49f67efa4c7caeb70ab334154e48d5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
85fc4207b822235b
SHA-256
85fc4207b822235b466e61c076128964ea49f67efa4c7caeb70ab334154e48d5
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
0.091141

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916591onnx/unsafe0.091141onnx/nsfw0.052066onnx/nsfl0.039075
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 693

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • golden object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gold
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • figure centered
  • text top-left and bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue and gold figure wearing a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' in top-left and blue '3' in bottom-right. The figure's pose is static with no visible motion changes. Background is brown. Colors include blue, gold, brown, and black. Text is rendered in blocky pixel font. The figure's clothing is blue with gold accents. The object held is golden and rounded. The text 'boost' has a small symbol next to it. The number '3' is large and bold. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Pixelated blue and gold figure with a cap, holding a golden object, with blue text 'boost' and '3' on screen.

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

  • boost 3 figure
  • blue gold pixelated figure
  • golden object cap
  • boost text 3 text
  • pixelated retro digital figure

Objects

  • golden object

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • boost
  • 3

Wordwall

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  • cap
  • golden object
  • boost text
  • 3 text
  • brown background
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • blue clothing
  • gold accents
  • static pose
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:41 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
20100514125552194852420
Archive entry
20100514125552194852420.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#20100514125552194852420.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100514125552194852420.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016