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Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones.

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Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones.

Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping shapes
  • central yellow shape
  • multiple color fields

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image composed of overlapping colored shapes. Top-left features a blue-gray shape with dark accents. Center-top contains a red shape with visible pixelation. Center displays a large yellow shape. Bottom-left shows a gray shape with dark patches. Bottom-right has a brown shape. Background includes green, light gray, and beige tones. No discernible text or recognizable subjects present. Pixelation obscures fine details.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • overlapping colored shapes
  • blue-gray red yellow gray brown
  • pixelated static image
  • multiple color fields
  • non-representational shapes
  • yellow central shape
  • beige green background

Wordwall

  • blue-gray shape
  • red shape
  • yellow shape
  • gray shape
  • brown shape
  • green background
  • light gray background
  • beige background
  • pixelated
  • overlapping shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070902164125560138428
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b5/b5fea774f59ceb85c3f0d15b98567c04a101e9c387f7c12fa9f6ba640f68f7f7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
b5fea774f59ceb85
SHA-256
b5fea774f59ceb85c3f0d15b98567c04a101e9c387f7c12fa9f6ba640f68f7f7
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001157

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.001157falseself-harm0.000465falseself-harm/intent0.000212falseviolence/graphic0.000024falsesexual0.000022falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.155357

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.844643onnx/unsafe0.155357onnx/nsfl0.106064onnx/nsfw0.049293
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:18 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,380 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 666

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

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  • red
  • yellow
  • gray
  • brown
  • green
  • light gray
  • beige

Composition

  • overlapping shapes
  • central yellow shape
  • multiple color fields

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image composed of overlapping colored shapes. Top-left features a blue-gray shape with dark accents. Center-top contains a red shape with visible pixelation. Center displays a large yellow shape. Bottom-left shows a gray shape with dark patches. Bottom-right has a brown shape. Background includes green, light gray, and beige tones. No discernible text or recognizable subjects present. Pixelation obscures fine details.

Description

  • Pixelated static image of multiple overlapping colored shapes including blue, red, yellow, green, brown, and gray tones.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract shapes
  • overlapping colored shapes
  • blue-gray red yellow gray brown
  • pixelated static image
  • multiple color fields
  • non-representational shapes
  • yellow central shape
  • beige green background

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • non-representational

Wordwall

  • blue-gray shape
  • red shape
  • yellow shape
  • gray shape
  • brown shape
  • green background
  • light gray background
  • beige background
  • pixelated
  • overlapping shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:59 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070902164125560138428
Archive entry
20070902164125560138428.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070902164125560138428.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070902164125560138428.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016