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A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density

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A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density

A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • checkerboard section
  • horizontal line sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pattern composed of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a solid yellow background. The squares are arranged in a grid-like structure with varying density: the top section contains mostly horizontal lines, the middle section features a checkerboard pattern of cyan squares on yellow, and the bottom section returns to horizontal lines. The squares and lines are uniformly sized and spaced, creating a repetitive geometric design. No text, figures, or additional elements are present.

Description

  • A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density

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 squares yellow background
  • checkerboard pattern horizontal lines
  • geometric design
  • repetitive cyan yellow pattern
  • solid yellow background cyan shapes
  • minimalist geometric pattern
  • repetitive cyan lines
  • yellow background cyan squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a grid with varying density.
  • quarantined wordwall: repetitive grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repetitive grid cyan lines
  • quarantined retrieval: geometric grid design

Wordwall

  • cyan squares
  • horizontal lines
  • yellow background
  • checkerboard pattern
  • repetitive
  • uniform spacing
  • geometric design
  • solid color background
  • no text
  • no figures

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007083006504626627095
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/934ff290041a13177b1e598096f3c66cec551f85a6eff44ba752303e3385b5dc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
934ff290041a1317
SHA-256
934ff290041a13177b1e598096f3c66cec551f85a6eff44ba752303e3385b5dc
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
0.106997

OpenAI category scores

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

A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:21 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,120, response 664

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • cyan

Composition

  • checkerboard section
  • horizontal line sections

Dense Caption

The image displays a static pattern composed of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a solid yellow background. The squares are arranged in a grid-like structure with varying density: the top section contains mostly horizontal lines, the middle section features a checkerboard pattern of cyan squares on yellow, and the bottom section returns to horizontal lines. The squares and lines are uniformly sized and spaced, creating a repetitive geometric design. No text, figures, or additional elements are present.

Description

  • A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a with varying density

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan squares yellow background
  • checkerboard pattern horizontal lines
  • geometric design
  • repetitive cyan yellow pattern
  • solid yellow background cyan shapes
  • minimalist geometric pattern
  • repetitive cyan lines
  • yellow background cyan squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static pattern of cyan squares and horizontal lines on a yellow background, arranged in a grid with varying density.
  • quarantined wordwall: repetitive grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: repetitive grid cyan lines
  • quarantined retrieval: geometric grid design

Style

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  • repetitive
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • cyan squares
  • horizontal lines
  • yellow background
  • checkerboard pattern
  • repetitive
  • uniform spacing
  • geometric design
  • solid color background
  • no text
  • no figures
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:38 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)
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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
2007083006504626627095
Archive entry
2007083006504626627095.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#2007083006504626627095.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007083006504626627095.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016