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Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font.

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Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font.

Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered

Dense Caption

Bright blue background with four identical light blue pixelated snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake has six symmetrical arms with rounded ends. White pixelated text 'Alexa' appears above and below each snowflake. The snowflakes are identical in shape and size, with no visible animation changes between frames. The image uses a limited color palette of blue and white. The snowflakes have a blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflake icon
  • blue background
  • Alexa text
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • light blue snowflakes
  • white text
  • symmetrical snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • Alexa

Wordwall

  • four snowflakes
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • symmetrical
  • six arms
  • light blue
  • identical
  • Alexa text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080229203725648301498
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a396b3db731ea34849b00a2f00d9738d89e5eb5af3a4aa31cc66590f51953750.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
a396b3db731ea348
SHA-256
a396b3db731ea34849b00a2f00d9738d89e5eb5af3a4aa31cc66590f51953750
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.116468

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

Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,087 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 613

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered

Dense Caption

Bright blue background with four identical light blue pixelated snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each snowflake has six symmetrical arms with rounded ends. White pixelated text 'Alexa' appears above and below each snowflake. The snowflakes are identical in shape and size, with no visible animation changes between frames. The image uses a limited color palette of blue and white. The snowflakes have a blocky, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated snowflakes on a bright blue background, each with 'Alexa' text above and below in white pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowflake icon
  • blue background
  • Alexa text
  • pixelated snowflakes
  • light blue snowflakes
  • white text
  • symmetrical snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • Alexa

Wordwall

  • four snowflakes
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • symmetrical
  • six arms
  • light blue
  • identical
  • Alexa text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:29 UTC
Run
56
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
20080229203725648301498
Archive entry
20080229203725648301498.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080229203725648301498.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080229203725648301498.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016