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six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles

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six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles

six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • top three
  • bottom three
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Six grid cells display era-labeled pixel art: top-left shows a red-and-beige '50s' icon with a pie slice and partial 'CHIPS' text; top-middle features a colorful, distorted '60s' eye; top-right has a black background with white stars and a moon labeled '70s'; bottom-left shows legs in 80s-style clothing with '80s' text; bottom-middle depicts a blue building under a cloudy sky labeled '90s'; bottom-right is a blank gray cell. All icons use low-resolution pixel art with era-specific color palettes and visual motifs.

Description

  • six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles

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

  • 50s pie slice icon
  • 60s distorted eye
  • 70s stars moon icon
  • 80s legs clothing icon
  • 90s blue building icon
  • era labeled pixel art
  • low resolution
  • retro era icons

Objects

  • eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty cell, each depicting era-specific visual styles.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray empty cell
  • quarantined composition: bottom row three
  • quarantined composition: top row three
  • quarantined composition: six cells
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution grid

Subjects

  • eye

Visible Text

  • 50s
  • 60s
  • 70s
  • 80s
  • 90s
  • CHIPS
  • ME.

Wordwall

  • 50s pie slice
  • 60s distorted eye
  • 70s stars moon
  • 80s legs clothing
  • 90s blue building
  • gray empty
  • pixel art
  • era labels
  • low resolution
  • red beige background
  • colorful distortion
  • black starry sky
  • 80s fashion
  • blue structure
  • cloudy sky

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909041754131613019086
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a92d722f5999d70c5d625b5b904dc160dc90dbe2f23615367ed886a6e0a58518.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
a92d722f5999d70c
SHA-256
a92d722f5999d70c5d625b5b904dc160dc90dbe2f23615367ed886a6e0a58518
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 05:30 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001577

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence/graphic0.001577falseviolence0.001293falseself-harm0.000489falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000143falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.178904

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.933357onnx/unsafe0.178904onnx/nsfw0.123992onnx/nsfl0.054912
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six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,452 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 799

Review tags

  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • era specific (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stencil (style, 0.80)
  • building (subject, 0.80)
  • eye (subject, 0.80)
  • legs (subject, 0.80)
  • moon (subject, 0.80)
  • pie slice (subject, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • beige
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • six
  • top three
  • bottom three
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

Six grid cells display era-labeled pixel art: top-left shows a red-and-beige '50s' icon with a pie slice and partial 'CHIPS' text; top-middle features a colorful, distorted '60s' eye; top-right has a black background with white stars and a moon labeled '70s'; bottom-left shows legs in 80s-style clothing with '80s' text; bottom-middle depicts a blue building under a cloudy sky labeled '90s'; bottom-right is a blank gray cell. All icons use low-resolution pixel art with era-specific color palettes and visual motifs.

Description

  • six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty , each depicting era-specific visual styles

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 50s pie slice icon
  • 60s distorted eye
  • 70s stars moon icon
  • 80s legs clothing icon
  • 90s blue building icon
  • era labeled pixel art
  • low resolution
  • retro era icons

Objects

  • stars
  • moon
  • building
  • legs
  • pie slice
  • eye

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A grid of six pixelated images labeled 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and an empty cell, each depicting era-specific visual styles.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray empty cell
  • quarantined composition: bottom row three
  • quarantined composition: top row three
  • quarantined composition: six cells
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: low resolution grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • era-specific
  • distorted
  • stencil

Subjects

  • pie slice
  • eye
  • stars
  • moon
  • legs
  • building

Visible Text

  • 50s
  • 60s
  • 70s
  • 80s
  • 90s
  • CHIPS
  • ME.

Wordwall

  • 50s pie slice
  • 60s distorted eye
  • 70s stars moon
  • 80s legs clothing
  • 90s blue building
  • gray empty
  • pixel art
  • era labels
  • low resolution
  • red beige background
  • colorful distortion
  • black starry sky
  • 80s fashion
  • blue structure
  • cloudy sky
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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
200909041754131613019086
Archive entry
200909041754131613019086.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909041754131613019086.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909041754131613019086.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016