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Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font.

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Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font.

Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central placement of snowflakes
  • text above each subject

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid blue background. Each snowflake has six symmetrical arms with smaller branching details. Above each snowflake is the word 'NORA' rendered in black, blocky, pixelated capital letters. The snowflakes are positioned centrally within their respective quadrants of the image. All four icons share identical visual elements including color scheme (blue background, white snowflakes, black text), composition layout, and rendering style.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font.

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

Named Entities

  • NORA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white snowflake blue background
  • NORA text pixelated
  • six-armed snowflake
  • snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes

Visible Text

  • NORA

Visually Supported Entities

  • NORA

Wordwall

  • white snowflake
  • blue background
  • NORA text
  • pixelated font
  • six-armed design
  • symmetrical arms
  • blocky letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811291900001157370224
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 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 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
93bcdcfc2105f176
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1287
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
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Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,457 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 615

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central placement of snowflakes
  • text above each subject

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical white snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid against a solid blue background. Each snowflake has six symmetrical arms with smaller branching details. Above each snowflake is the word 'NORA' rendered in black, blocky, pixelated capital letters. The snowflakes are positioned centrally within their respective quadrants of the image. All four icons share identical visual elements including color scheme (blue background, white snowflakes, black text), composition layout, and rendering style.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons on a blue background, each with 'NORA' text above it in black pixelated font.

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

Named Entities

  • NORA

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white snowflake blue background
  • NORA text pixelated
  • six-armed snowflake
  • snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid snowflakes

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • digital art

Subjects

  • snowflake

Visible Text

  • NORA

Visually Supported Entities

  • NORA

Wordwall

  • white snowflake
  • blue background
  • NORA text
  • pixelated font
  • six-armed design
  • symmetrical arms
  • blocky letters
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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
200811291900001157370224
Archive entry
200811291900001157370224.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811291900001157370224.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811291900001157370224.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016