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Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue background.

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Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue background.

Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Composition

  • centered text
  • circular icons
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a cyan gradient background with a darker blue outer border. Centered within each circle is the word 'Sandbox' rendered in a pixelated, dark blue font. The icons are static with no visible animation changes across frames. The background outside the circles is a solid blue color. The text 'Sandbox' is consistently positioned in the horizontal center of each circle. The icons have a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan sandbox icon
  • pixelated sandbox text
  • blue background sandbox
  • sandbox icons
  • retro digital sandbox
  • low-resolution sandbox
  • centered sandbox text
  • cyan gradient sandbox

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • Sandbox

Wordwall

  • cyan gradient
  • pixelated text
  • Sandbox text
  • blue background
  • identical icons
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • centered text
  • solid blue backdrop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071130180643901540710
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
a428bb2ae847b23c
SHA-256
a428bb2ae847b23cafa3d4583f2eb9cf7bce46c465585c503433d683fec5242b
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
0.080169

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

Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:40 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,561 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • centered text
  • circular icons
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a cyan gradient background with a darker blue outer border. Centered within each circle is the word 'Sandbox' rendered in a pixelated, dark blue font. The icons are static with no visible animation changes across frames. The background outside the circles is a solid blue color. The text 'Sandbox' is consistently positioned in the horizontal center of each circle. The icons have a retro digital aesthetic with low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Four identical cyan circular icons with pixelated 'Sandbox' text centered on a blue 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan sandbox icon
  • pixelated sandbox text
  • blue background sandbox
  • sandbox icons
  • retro digital sandbox
  • low-resolution sandbox
  • centered sandbox text
  • cyan gradient sandbox

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Sandbox

Wordwall

  • cyan gradient
  • pixelated text
  • Sandbox text
  • blue background
  • identical icons
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • centered text
  • solid blue backdrop
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:51 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
20071130180643901540710
Archive entry
20071130180643901540710.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#20071130180643901540710.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071130180643901540710.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016