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A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background.

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A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background.

A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • diagonal orientation
  • close-up view
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up view of a white cylindrical object with a hollow circular opening at the top-left end. The cylinder has visible text or markings on its side: '7' followed by an unclear symbol and another character below it. The surface appears smooth with subtle shading indicating curvature. The background is solid black, creating high contrast with the light-colored object. Pixelation suggests low resolution or intentional dithering. No other objects or elements are present in the frame.

Description

A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081003125955665613597
  • observation title (gallery): 20081003125958255185319
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081003125955665613597
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081003125958255185319

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081003125955665613597
  • 20081003125958255185319

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white cylindrical object black background
  • cylindrical object with circular opening
  • text 7 on cylinder
  • pixelated grayscale cylinder

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated with dithering effects

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Uncertain Text

  • .
  • 7.

Visible Text

  • 7

Visually Supported Entities

  • cylindrical object

Wordwall

  • white cylindrical object
  • circular opening at top-left
  • text markings: '7' and unclear symbol
  • solid black background
  • pixelated grayscale rendering
  • diagonal orientation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081003125958255185319
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081003125955665613597
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9c0f467d2705660d420ab161859394ebe38be8408527cbadf83906efa6458a19.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
9c0f467d2705660d
SHA-256
9c0f467d2705660d420ab161859394ebe38be8408527cbadf83906efa6458a19
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069971

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,391 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,133, response 876

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cylindrical object (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • diagonal orientation
  • close-up view
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up view of a white cylindrical object with a hollow circular opening at the top-left end. The cylinder has visible text or markings on its side: '7' followed by an unclear symbol and another character below it. The surface appears smooth with subtle shading indicating curvature. The background is solid black, creating high contrast with the light-colored object. Pixelation suggests low resolution or intentional dithering. No other objects or elements are present in the frame.

Description

A pixelated grayscale image of a white cylindrical object with a circular opening at one end, positioned diagonally against a black background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081003125955665613597
  • observation title (gallery): 20081003125958255185319
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081003125955665613597
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081003125958255185319

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081003125955665613597
  • 20081003125958255185319

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white cylindrical object black background
  • cylindrical object with circular opening
  • text 7 on cylinder
  • pixelated grayscale cylinder

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated with dithering effects

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cylindrical object

Uncertain Text

  • .
  • 7.

Visible Text

  • 7

Visually Supported Entities

  • cylindrical object

Wordwall

  • white cylindrical object
  • circular opening at top-left
  • text markings: '7' and unclear symbol
  • solid black background
  • pixelated grayscale rendering
  • diagonal orientation
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Full source records (2)

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
20081003125958255185319
Archive entry
20081003125958255185319.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081003125958255185319.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081003125958255185319.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20081003125955665613597
Archive entry
20081003125955665613597.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081003125955665613597.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081003125955665613597.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016