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[br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders.

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[br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders.

[br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top and bottom gray borders
  • repeated units on white background
  • right-side light gray rectangle

Dense Caption

[br0k3n.] appears in black monospace font above each '/3' symbol. The symbols are angled leftward slashes followed by '3', rendered as solid black pixels on white background. Gray terrain borders appear at top and bottom of the image, composed of jagged pixelated shapes with alternating light and dark gray tones. Three identical units occupy the upper portion; two more identical units occupy the lower-left portion. The right side of the lower section is covered by a plain light gray rectangle.

Description

  • [br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080412073736319789808

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • [br0k3n.] /3 symbol
  • [br0k3n.] terrain borders
  • /3 symbol gray rectangle
  • pixel art [br0k3n].

Visible Text

  • [br0k3n.]

Wordwall

  • [br0k3n.] text
  • /3 symbol
  • black monospace font
  • white background
  • gray terrain borders
  • jagged pixelated shapes
  • light and dark gray tones
  • three identical units (top)
  • two identical units (bottom-left)
  • plain light gray rectangle (right)

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080412073736319789808
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
575 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b667f319556fc7b9f8d5566fdadf1face983096a4b263b91d5d647c04b57cc5d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
b667f319556fc7b9
SHA-256
b667f319556fc7b9f8d5566fdadf1face983096a4b263b91d5d647c04b57cc5d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.084753

OpenAI category scores

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[br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:36 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,520 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 685

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • jagged terrain borders (style, 0.80)
  • monospace text (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • top and bottom gray borders
  • repeated units on white background
  • right-side light gray rectangle

Dense Caption

[br0k3n.] appears in black monospace font above each '/3' symbol. The symbols are angled leftward slashes followed by '3', rendered as solid black pixels on white background. Gray terrain borders appear at top and bottom of the image, composed of jagged pixelated shapes with alternating light and dark gray tones. Three identical units occupy the upper portion; two more identical units occupy the lower-left portion. The right side of the lower section is covered by a plain light gray rectangle.

Description

  • [br0k3n.] text and '/3' symbol repeated across a pixelated landscape with gray terrain borders.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080412073736319789808

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • [br0k3n.] /3 symbol
  • [br0k3n.] terrain borders
  • /3 symbol gray rectangle
  • pixel art [br0k3n].

Objects

  • /3 symbol

Style

  • pixel art
  • monospace text
  • jagged terrain borders

Visible Text

  • [br0k3n.]

Wordwall

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  • /3 symbol
  • black monospace font
  • white background
  • gray terrain borders
  • jagged pixelated shapes
  • light and dark gray tones
  • three identical units (top)
  • two identical units (bottom-left)
  • plain light gray rectangle (right)
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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
20080412073736319789808
Archive entry
20080412073736319789808.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080412073736319789808.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080412073736319789808.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016