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A pixelated blue and black vertical shape with a glowing base against a dark background.

A pixelated blue and black vertical shape with a glowing base against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • vertical orientation
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated vertical shape composed of blue and black pixels, with a glowing light blue base. The shape has a narrow top that widens slightly toward the base. The background consists of dark blue and black pixels with scattered lighter blue and green pixels. The overall composition is centered with the vertical shape extending from the top to the bottom of the frame. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated blue and black vertical shape with a glowing base against 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue vertical shape
  • glowing base dark background
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • centered vertical composition
  • blue black light blue pixels
  • scattered dark blue green pixels
  • mysterious abstract shape
  • pixelated digital art

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue
  • black
  • vertical shape
  • glowing base
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • centered composition
  • light blue base
  • scattered pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712011128171363349923
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/9788273263784186be73db3761e2789f7c7d49178b8b63f3bf09e0d942de9d3f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
9788273263784186
SHA-256
9788273263784186be73db3761e2789f7c7d49178b8b63f3bf09e0d942de9d3f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075578

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated blue and black vertical shape with a glowing base against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,373 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 668

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • vertical shape (subject, 0.80)

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  • blue
  • black
  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • green

Composition

  • centered
  • vertical orientation
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated vertical shape composed of blue and black pixels, with a glowing light blue base. The shape has a narrow top that widens slightly toward the base. The background consists of dark blue and black pixels with scattered lighter blue and green pixels. The overall composition is centered with the vertical shape extending from the top to the bottom of the frame. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated blue and black vertical shape with a glowing base against 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • mysterious
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated blue vertical shape
  • glowing base dark background
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • centered vertical composition
  • blue black light blue pixels
  • scattered dark blue green pixels
  • mysterious abstract shape
  • pixelated digital art

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • vertical shape

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • blue
  • black
  • vertical shape
  • glowing base
  • dark background
  • low-resolution
  • centered composition
  • light blue base
  • scattered pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Run
53
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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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
200712011128171363349923
Archive entry
200712011128171363349923.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200712011128171363349923.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712011128171363349923.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016