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Three variations of a pixelated icon showing text and a stylized object with changing background colors.

Three variations of a pixelated icon showing text and a stylized object with changing background colors. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Source terms

Composition

  • three identical frames side-by-side
  • text above object
  • solid background with one rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays three identical static frames side-by-side. Each frame contains the text "The City Is at" in dark gray above a black rectangular box with red, yellow, or blue text reading "WOT." To the right of each box is a black stylized object resembling a curved pipe or hook with a green top and four small black dots below it. The background is white except for the bottom-right corner which is solid gray.

Description

  • Three variations of a pixelated icon showing text and a stylized object with changing background colors.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807161015011282611352

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the city is at wot red
  • the city is at wot yellow
  • the city is at wot blue
  • wot text icon
  • stylized object with green top

Visible Text

  • The City Is at
  • WOT

Wordwall

  • text: 'The City Is at'
  • text: 'WOT' (red)
  • text: 'WOT' (yellow)
  • text: 'WOT' (blue)
  • black stylized object
  • green top on object
  • four black dots below object
  • white background
  • gray rectangle bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807161015011282611352
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/9111b949fc0080687fb5bbbe8c113374a4bc71bffa4842759e703d94db442edd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
9111b949fc008068
SHA-256
9111b949fc0080687fb5bbbe8c113374a4bc71bffa4842759e703d94db442edd
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 13:48 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023629

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.137571

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Three variations of a pixelated icon showing text and a stylized object with changing background colors.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,070 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 716

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • black rectangular box (object, 0.80)
  • four black dots (object, 0.80)
  • green top (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • stylized object (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • red
  • yellow
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • green

Composition

  • three identical frames side-by-side
  • text above object
  • solid background with one rectangle

Dense Caption

The image displays three identical static frames side-by-side. Each frame contains the text "The City Is at" in dark gray above a black rectangular box with red, yellow, or blue text reading "WOT." To the right of each box is a black stylized object resembling a curved pipe or hook with a green top and four small black dots below it. The background is white except for the bottom-right corner which is solid gray.

Description

  • Three variations of a pixelated icon showing text and a stylized object with changing background colors.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807161015011282611352

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • the city is at wot red
  • the city is at wot yellow
  • the city is at wot blue
  • wot text icon
  • stylized object with green top

Objects

  • black rectangular box
  • green top
  • four black dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • stylized object

Visible Text

  • The City Is at
  • WOT

Wordwall

  • text: 'The City Is at'
  • text: 'WOT' (red)
  • text: 'WOT' (yellow)
  • text: 'WOT' (blue)
  • black stylized object
  • green top on object
  • four black dots below object
  • white background
  • gray rectangle bottom-right
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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
200807161015011282611352
Archive entry
200807161015011282611352.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807161015011282611352.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807161015011282611352.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016