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Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background.

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Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background.

Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical stripes left
  • checkerboard center
  • text fragments right
  • high-contrast layout

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel grayscale icon. It features multiple distinct visual sections: left side has thick vertical white stripes alternating with black; center section displays a checkerboard pattern of small gray squares; right side contains fragmented white text-like shapes against black. The overall composition uses high-contrast monochrome pixels without any visible motion or color beyond shades of gray.

Description

  • Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070912183757340187319

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art icon
  • vertical stripes checkerboard text fragments
  • static monochrome 16x16 grid
  • high contrast grayscale composition

Uncertain Text

  • partially legible characters on right side

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel grid
  • vertical white stripes
  • checkerboard pattern
  • fragmented white text elements
  • dark background
  • high contrast grayscale
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070912183757340187319
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/964672b893ef35fe6254918e3f0e17cd990c818d4630f5d299e561a92b0b3c1a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
964672b893ef35fe
SHA-256
964672b893ef35fe6254918e3f0e17cd990c818d4630f5d299e561a92b0b3c1a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082176

OpenAI category scores

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Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 01:33 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,566 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 623

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical stripes left
  • checkerboard center
  • text fragments right
  • high-contrast layout

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel grayscale icon. It features multiple distinct visual sections: left side has thick vertical white stripes alternating with black; center section displays a checkerboard pattern of small gray squares; right side contains fragmented white text-like shapes against black. The overall composition uses high-contrast monochrome pixels without any visible motion or color beyond shades of gray.

Description

  • Static grayscale icon with vertical stripes, checkered pattern, and fragmented text elements on a dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070912183757340187319

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art icon
  • vertical stripes checkerboard text fragments
  • static monochrome 16x16 grid
  • high contrast grayscale composition

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • minimalist

Uncertain Text

  • partially legible characters on right side

Wordwall

  • 16x16 pixel grid
  • vertical white stripes
  • checkerboard pattern
  • fragmented white text elements
  • dark background
  • high contrast grayscale
  • static image
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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
20070912183757340187319
Archive entry
20070912183757340187319.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070912183757340187319.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070912183757340187319.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016