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Pixelated image with dark background showing abstract shapes and a bright pink section with blue text.

Pixelated image with dark background showing abstract shapes and a bright pink section with blue text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • shapes on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. The left section has a dark background with pixelated abstract shapes in brown, red, and white tones. The right section is solid bright pink with blue pixelated text reading "sarah rox". The text is in a blocky, digital font. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with dark background showing abstract shapes and a bright pink section with blue text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sarah rox pixelated text
  • bright pink blue text
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • sarah rox

Visually Supported Entities

  • sarah rox

Wordwall

  • dark background
  • pixelated shapes
  • brown red white tones
  • bright pink section
  • blue text
  • sarah rox
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001040041262106939735
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9ac4f9e5ba3a5e859f7a264b40c44fcd4a9f753f14d092b8ec65586095562892.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
9ac4f9e5ba3a5e85
SHA-256
9ac4f9e5ba3a5e859f7a264b40c44fcd4a9f753f14d092b8ec65586095562892
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107236

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated image with dark background showing abstract shapes and a bright pink section with blue text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,267 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 703

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark
  • brown
  • red
  • white
  • bright pink
  • blue

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • shapes on left

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. The left section has a dark background with pixelated abstract shapes in brown, red, and white tones. The right section is solid bright pink with blue pixelated text reading "sarah rox". The text is in a blocky, digital font. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image with dark background showing abstract shapes and a bright pink section with blue text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sarah rox pixelated text
  • bright pink blue text
  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • low-resolution buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • abstract shapes
  • text

Visible Text

  • sarah rox

Visually Supported Entities

  • sarah rox

Wordwall

  • dark background
  • pixelated shapes
  • brown red white tones
  • bright pink section
  • blue text
  • sarah rox
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:53 UTC
Run
61
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
201001040041262106939735
Archive entry
201001040041262106939735.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001040041262106939735.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001040041262106939735.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016