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A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds.

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A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds.

A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Source terms

Composition

  • 3x3 grid
  • static images

Dense Caption

The grid contains nine distinct static images arranged in a 3x3 layout. Top row: left image shows a figure with light brown hair against a beige background; middle image shows a dark figure with light accents on a gray background; right image shows a figure with purple and pink tones on a dark background. Middle row: left image shows a figure with purple and blue tones on a dark background; middle image shows a figure with purple and blue tones on a beige background; right image shows a figure with white and light blue tones on a dark background. Bottom row: left image shows a blue and green abstract design on a dark background; middle image shows a white and light blue abstract design on a dark background; right image shows a red and orange abstract design on a dark background. All images are pixelated with visible dithering and low resolution.

Description

  • A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200711241412432068004871

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background figure
  • gray background figure
  • dark background figure
  • purple blue abstract
  • green abstract design
  • red orange abstract
  • pixelated static images
  • 3x3 grid layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • Grid layout is a presentation format, not content; all images are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • dithering

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • gray background
  • dark background
  • purple tones
  • blue tones
  • green tones
  • red tones
  • orange tones
  • abstract design
  • light brown hair
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • low resolution
  • 3x3 grid
  • static images
  • figure
  • color palettes
  • beige
  • gray
  • dark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711241412432068004871
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/ba/ba4a2a3e68c58c994315117cbd5cdef797d2b0eb986b0416a6359f621df10689.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
ba4a2a3e68c58c99
SHA-256
ba4a2a3e68c58c994315117cbd5cdef797d2b0eb986b0416a6359f621df10689
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081299

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918701onnx/unsafe0.081299onnx/nsfw0.044110onnx/nsfl0.037189
Enrichment records (2)
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A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,367 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 858

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract design (subject, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • beige
  • gray
  • dark
  • purple
  • blue
  • green
  • red
  • orange
  • light brown

Composition

  • 3x3 grid
  • static images

Dense Caption

The grid contains nine distinct static images arranged in a 3x3 layout. Top row: left image shows a figure with light brown hair against a beige background; middle image shows a dark figure with light accents on a gray background; right image shows a figure with purple and pink tones on a dark background. Middle row: left image shows a figure with purple and blue tones on a dark background; middle image shows a figure with purple and blue tones on a beige background; right image shows a figure with white and light blue tones on a dark background. Bottom row: left image shows a blue and green abstract design on a dark background; middle image shows a white and light blue abstract design on a dark background; right image shows a red and orange abstract design on a dark background. All images are pixelated with visible dithering and low resolution.

Description

  • A grid of nine pixelated static images showing various characters and abstract designs with distinct color palettes and backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200711241412432068004871

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beige background figure
  • gray background figure
  • dark background figure
  • purple blue abstract
  • green abstract design
  • red orange abstract
  • pixelated static images
  • 3x3 grid layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • Grid layout is a presentation format, not content; all images are static

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • figure
  • abstract design

Wordwall

  • beige background
  • gray background
  • dark background
  • purple tones
  • blue tones
  • green tones
  • red tones
  • orange tones
  • abstract design
  • light brown hair
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • low resolution
  • 3x3 grid
  • static images
  • figure
  • color palettes
  • beige
  • gray
  • dark
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:20 UTC
Run
53
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
200711241412432068004871
Archive entry
200711241412432068004871.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711241412432068004871.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711241412432068004871.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016