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Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles.

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Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles.

Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • text positioned near circles
  • consistent text placement

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles; circles vary in size and color (orange and brown); text is pixelated and appears in four locations; no visible motion or animation changes; circles include solid and half-circles; background is solid blue; text is consistent across all visible instances; no additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background orange circles brown circles
  • four skywer texts
  • pixelated text blue background
  • scattered circles skywer text

Visible Text

  • Skywer

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange circles
  • brown circles
  • four "Skywer" texts
  • pixelated text
  • solid blue background
  • scattered circles
  • half-circles
  • orange text
  • text positioned near circles
  • no motion
  • consistent text
  • varied circle sizes
  • pixelated circles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708220930451109584366
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
b9dd5a3a390e646c
SHA-256
b9dd5a3a390e646c8ebeda4744074e74f8c07540a41f23f8028ee6f9430ea87e
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
1355
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Overall score
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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 06:37 UTC
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1258
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July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,916 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 678

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • brown

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Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles; circles vary in size and color (orange and brown); text is pixelated and appears in four locations; no visible motion or animation changes; circles include solid and half-circles; background is solid blue; text is consistent across all visible instances; no additional objects or subjects present.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered orange and brown circles; four instances of orange text reading "Skywer" positioned near the circles.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • four skywer texts
  • pixelated text blue background
  • scattered circles skywer text

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
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Visible Text

  • Skywer

Wordwall

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:38 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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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
200708220930451109584366
Archive entry
200708220930451109584366.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708220930451109584366.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708220930451109584366.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016