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Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a

Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Four white snowflake icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a cyan background. Each snowflake has a distinct pixelated design: top-left snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally left, top-right snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally right, bottom-left snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally left and one arm extended vertically down, bottom-right snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally right and one arm extended vertically down. Above each snowflake, pink pixelated text reads 'Alex' in a cursive font. The snowflakes are static and do not animate.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a

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

  • cyan background snowflakes
  • pink Alex text snowflakes
  • snowflakes
  • pixelated snowflakes Alex
  • cursive Alex snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • horizontal vertical snowflakes
  • symmetrical snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes

Style

  • cursive text

Visible Text

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white snowflakes
  • pink 'Alex' text
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • cursive text
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • horizontal arm extensions
  • vertical arm extensions

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812031823511419166431
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
8d9b938a149ab9ca
SHA-256
8d9b938a149ab9ca05a0e5b65b0cb46877c2f05d8673ec67ce8e6c96f134cc4d
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Assessed
August 31, 2026 at 20:37 UTC
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15969
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Overall score
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August 10, 2026 at 01:08 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
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Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,252 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 736

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cursive text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Four white snowflake icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a cyan background. Each snowflake has a distinct pixelated design: top-left snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally left, top-right snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally right, bottom-left snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally left and one arm extended vertically down, bottom-right snowflake has six arms with one arm extended horizontally right and one arm extended vertically down. Above each snowflake, pink pixelated text reads 'Alex' in a cursive font. The snowflakes are static and do not animate.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons with pink 'Alex' text above each, displayed on a cyan background in a

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

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  • pink Alex text snowflakes
  • snowflakes
  • pixelated snowflakes Alex
  • cursive Alex snowflakes
  • six-armed snowflakes
  • horizontal vertical snowflakes
  • symmetrical snowflakes

Objects

  • snowflakes
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes

Style

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Subjects

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  • text

Visible Text

  • Alex

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • white snowflakes
  • pink 'Alex' text
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • cursive text
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  • horizontal arm extensions
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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
200812031823511419166431
Archive entry
200812031823511419166431.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812031823511419166431.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812031823511419166431.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016