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colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square

colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • uniform spacing
  • repeating color pattern
  • gray background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a static grid composed of 100 individual squares arranged in 10 rows and 10 columns. Each square is a solid color with black borders separating adjacent squares. The colors include cyan, magenta, green, yellow, red, and orange. The grid is uniform with no visible text, symbols, or additional elements. The squares are arranged in a repeating pattern across the grid. The right side of the image has a gray background replacing the grid.

Description

  • colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta green yellow red orange
  • repeating color pattern
  • solid color squares black borders
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static grid of 10x10 colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square.
  • quarantined wordwall: 10x10 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 10x10 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray background grid
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating color pattern grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 10x10 grid cyan magenta green yellow red orange

Wordwall

  • 100 squares
  • black borders
  • cyan squares
  • magenta squares
  • green squares
  • yellow squares
  • red squares
  • orange squares
  • repeating pattern
  • gray background on right
  • solid colors
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • no additional elements

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811131909271936750112
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b7a06536d12f2921621d0703dbaa93b043f67661e76e5701bdf722ccdbc9c976.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
b7a06536d12f2921
SHA-256
b7a06536d12f2921621d0703dbaa93b043f67661e76e5701bdf722ccdbc9c976
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 18:54 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 06:17 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016154

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
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1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.491098

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,900 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 705

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • geometric (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • solid colors (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • green
  • yellow
  • red
  • orange
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • uniform spacing
  • repeating color pattern
  • gray background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a static grid composed of 100 individual squares arranged in 10 rows and 10 columns. Each square is a solid color with black borders separating adjacent squares. The colors include cyan, magenta, green, yellow, red, and orange. The grid is uniform with no visible text, symbols, or additional elements. The squares are arranged in a repeating pattern across the grid. The right side of the image has a gray background replacing the grid.

Description

  • colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • geometric

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta green yellow red orange
  • repeating color pattern
  • solid color squares black borders
  • gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static grid of 10x10 colored squares arranged in a repeating pattern with black borders between each square.
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  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 10x10 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray background grid
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Style

  • pixelated
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  • solid colors

Wordwall

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  • magenta squares
  • green squares
  • yellow squares
  • red squares
  • orange squares
  • repeating pattern
  • gray background on right
  • solid colors
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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
200811131909271936750112
Archive entry
200811131909271936750112.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811131909271936750112.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811131909271936750112.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016