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Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges.

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Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges.

Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Composition

  • centered
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Four white snowflake icons displayed on a solid blue background. Top-left snowflake has six branches with three short side branches on each main arm. Top-right snowflake has six branches with two short side branches on each main arm. Bottom-left snowflake has six branches with one short side branch on each main arm. Bottom-right snowflake has six branches with two short side branches on each main arm. All snowflakes are pixelated with jagged edges. The background is a uniform solid blue color. The snowflakes are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white snowflakes blue background
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • six branch snowflakes
  • blue background white snowflakes
  • snowflakes pixel art
  • symmetrical snowflakes blue
  • snowflakes
  • white snowflakes blue background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

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

Wordwall

  • white snowflakes
  • blue background
  • six branches
  • pixelated edges
  • distinct branching patterns
  • solid color background
  • jagged edges
  • uniform blue
  • branching patterns

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811281811281348794643
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
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a2/a2d03e2092786dec3d5687602fa3c7521698be5538b600b45e28d6fbb8a03402.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
a2d03e2092786dec
SHA-256
a2d03e2092786dec3d5687602fa3c7521698be5538b600b45e28d6fbb8a03402
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000514

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,778 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 712

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Four white snowflake icons displayed on a solid blue background. Top-left snowflake has six branches with three short side branches on each main arm. Top-right snowflake has six branches with two short side branches on each main arm. Bottom-left snowflake has six branches with one short side branch on each main arm. Bottom-right snowflake has six branches with two short side branches on each main arm. All snowflakes are pixelated with jagged edges. The background is a uniform solid blue color. The snowflakes are arranged in a 2x2 grid pattern.

Description

  • Four white snowflake icons on a solid blue background, each with distinct branching patterns and varying pixelated edges.

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

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white snowflakes blue background
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • six branch snowflakes
  • blue background white snowflakes
  • snowflakes pixel art
  • symmetrical snowflakes blue
  • snowflakes
  • white snowflakes blue background pixelated

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • simplified
  • symmetrical

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Wordwall

  • white snowflakes
  • blue background
  • six branches
  • pixelated edges
  • distinct branching patterns
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  • jagged edges
  • uniform blue
  • branching patterns
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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
200811281811281348794643
Archive entry
200811281811281348794643.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#200811281811281348794643.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811281811281348794643.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016