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Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

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Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Animation Summary

No visible content changes across observations; consistent pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk symbols arranged in symmetrical pattern throughout all frames

Composition

  • four corner text elements
  • central asterisk cluster
  • bordered structure

Dense Caption

Cyan background features four instances of pixelated pink text reading 'snowy', each positioned at the corners of an implied square. Dark blue asterisk-shaped symbols form a border around the perimeter, with additional asterisks centered on horizontal and vertical midlines between corner elements. Dashed dark blue lines connect these central asterisks to the corner symbols, creating a symmetrical grid structure. All visual elements maintain consistent pixelation throughout the animation sequence.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

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
  • 200712240900115313061

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background snowy asterisks
  • pixel art snowy
  • symmetrical snowy border
  • asterisk cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible content changes across observations; consistent pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk symbols arranged in symmetrical grid pattern throughout all frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: bordered grid structure
  • quarantined retrieval: asterisk grid cyan text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art snowy grid

Visible Text

  • snowy

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink 'snowy' text
  • dark blue asterisk symbols
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated rendering
  • dashed connecting lines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712240900115313061
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1016 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b759c55568488f46524ac3ae67a1ac97536ba8e40b85dfb31c69e05ae1a22f41.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
b759c55568488f46
SHA-256
b759c55568488f46524ac3ae67a1ac97536ba8e40b85dfb31c69e05ae1a22f41
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.175705

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.835736onnx/unsafe0.175705onnx/nsfw0.131916onnx/nsfl0.043789
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Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,237 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 604

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • asterisk shaped symbols (object, 0.80)
  • dashed lines (object, 0.80)
  • composition (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical design (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible content changes across observations; consistent pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk symbols arranged in symmetrical pattern throughout all frames

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four corner text elements
  • central asterisk cluster
  • bordered structure

Dense Caption

Cyan background features four instances of pixelated pink text reading 'snowy', each positioned at the corners of an implied square. Dark blue asterisk-shaped symbols form a border around the perimeter, with additional asterisks centered on horizontal and vertical midlines between corner elements. Dashed dark blue lines connect these central asterisks to the corner symbols, creating a symmetrical grid structure. All visual elements maintain consistent pixelation throughout the animation sequence.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

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
  • 200712240900115313061

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background snowy asterisks
  • pixel art snowy
  • symmetrical snowy border
  • asterisk cyan text

Objects

  • asterisk-shaped symbols
  • dashed lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk-like symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No visible content changes across observations; consistent pixelated cyan background with pink 'snowy' text and dark blue asterisk symbols arranged in symmetrical grid pattern throughout all frames.
  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: bordered grid structure
  • quarantined retrieval: asterisk grid cyan text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art snowy grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • symmetrical design
  • composition

Visible Text

  • snowy

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • pink 'snowy' text
  • dark blue asterisk symbols
  • symmetrical
  • pixelated rendering
  • dashed connecting lines
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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
200712240900115313061
Archive entry
200712240900115313061.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712240900115313061.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712240900115313061.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016