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A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements.

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A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements.

A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal centering
  • partial obscuration
  • multiple distinct sections

Dense Caption

The image contains a light brown rectangular shape with white text reading "FRANKS" and "ICONS" in a sans-serif font. The text is horizontally centered on the brown shape. To the left, there is a white area with a dark brown vertical border. Below the brown shape, there is a pinkish-purple section. On the right side, there is a green circular element with a brown center. The overall image is pixelated and low-resolution.

Description

  • A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks icons
  • light brown rectangle
  • green circular element
  • white text
  • pixelated image

Visible Text

  • FRANKS
  • ICONS

Wordwall

  • light brown rectangle
  • white text
  • FRANKS
  • ICONS
  • green circular element
  • pinkish-purple section
  • white area
  • dark brown border
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070806164635952783746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92bc70c067788b149f7cfe7732ec7532caf69f8bdf80a2eaec4b9ddec504904e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
92bc70c067788b14
SHA-256
92bc70c067788b149f7cfe7732ec7532caf69f8bdf80a2eaec4b9ddec504904e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072736

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,214 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 690

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown border (object, 0.80)
  • pinkish purple section (object, 0.80)
  • white area (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • simplified (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • white
  • green
  • pinkish-purple
  • dark brown

Composition

  • horizontal centering
  • partial obscuration
  • multiple distinct sections

Dense Caption

The image contains a light brown rectangular shape with white text reading "FRANKS" and "ICONS" in a sans-serif font. The text is horizontally centered on the brown shape. To the left, there is a white area with a dark brown vertical border. Below the brown shape, there is a pinkish-purple section. On the right side, there is a green circular element with a brown center. The overall image is pixelated and low-resolution.

Description

  • A static image shows a light brown rectangular object with white text and green accents, partially obscured by surrounding elements.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • franks icons
  • light brown rectangle
  • green circular element
  • white text
  • pixelated image

Objects

  • text
  • rectangular shape
  • circular shape
  • white area
  • pinkish-purple section
  • dark brown border

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • simplified

Subjects

  • text
  • rectangular shape
  • circular shape

Visible Text

  • FRANKS
  • ICONS

Wordwall

  • light brown rectangle
  • white text
  • FRANKS
  • ICONS
  • green circular element
  • pinkish-purple section
  • white area
  • dark brown border
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
20070806164635952783746
Archive entry
20070806164635952783746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070806164635952783746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070806164635952783746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016