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Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters.

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Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters.

Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical layout
  • left graphic right text
  • symmetrical snowflake
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated snowflake rendered in light blue and white tones against a solid dark blue background; the snowflake has six symmetrical arms with branching patterns. Right side displays five lines of identical cyan-colored text reading 'snow', each line centered vertically on a solid dark blue background, forming a vertical column. The entire composition is split into two equal vertical sections: left for the snowflake graphic and right for the text block.

Description

  • Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated snowflake cyan text
  • snow repeated vertical
  • dark blue background snow icon
  • six arm snowflake cyan letters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text column
  • quarantined composition: centered text column

Visible Text

  • snow

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowflake

Wordwall

  • pixelated snowflake
  • six arms
  • light blue white
  • dark blue background
  • cyan text
  • 'snow' repeated
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical branches

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712041228331862636463
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ad/adc04e64fd349b15e67f2684fcf71e4fbc9f4481c06194a70df54428dabd7181.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
adc04e64fd349b15
SHA-256
adc04e64fd349b15e67f2684fcf71e4fbc9f4481c06194a70df54428dabd7181
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 23:11 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000011

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000011falseharassment0.000004falseviolence/graphic0.000003falseviolence0.000003falseself-harm0.000003falseillicit0.000002falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsehate0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
Run
1230
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000506

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000506falseself-harm0.000462falsesexual0.000040falseviolence/graphic0.000012falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.571788

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932005onnx/unsafe0.571788onnx/nsfw0.531250onnx/nsfl0.040538
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:05 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,057 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 604

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • winter (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowflake (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • cyan

Composition

  • split vertical layout
  • left graphic right text
  • symmetrical snowflake
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated snowflake rendered in light blue and white tones against a solid dark blue background; the snowflake has six symmetrical arms with branching patterns. Right side displays five lines of identical cyan-colored text reading 'snow', each line centered vertically on a solid dark blue background, forming a vertical column. The entire composition is split into two equal vertical sections: left for the snowflake graphic and right for the text block.

Description

  • Pixelated snowflake icon with six arms on dark blue background, adjacent to vertical text repeating 'snow' in cyan block letters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • calm
  • winter

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated snowflake cyan text
  • snow repeated vertical
  • dark blue background snow icon
  • six arm snowflake cyan letters

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text column
  • quarantined composition: centered text column

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky text
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • snowflake

Visible Text

  • snow

Visually Supported Entities

  • snowflake

Wordwall

  • pixelated snowflake
  • six arms
  • light blue white
  • dark blue background
  • cyan text
  • 'snow' repeated
  • vertical text
  • symmetrical branches
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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
200712041228331862636463
Archive entry
200712041228331862636463.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712041228331862636463.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712041228331862636463.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016