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A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below.

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A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below.

A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Composition

  • horse silhouette centered above text
  • text spans bottom third
  • glowing background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated horse silhouette facing left against a bright, glowing background with horizontal bands of yellow and orange. Below the horse, the text 'middle earth' appears in bold, yellow, pixelated letters with a red outline. The horse's head is slightly raised, and the background has a gradient from bright white at the top to darker orange at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090926155429434938661

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • horse silhouette middle earth
  • pixelated middle earth text
  • glowing background horse
  • retro digital art middle earth

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame with no visible animation changes

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

Subjects

  • horse

Visible Text

  • middle earth

Wordwall

  • horse silhouette
  • glowing background
  • yellow text
  • red outline
  • pixelated
  • middle earth
  • orange gradient
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090926155429434938661
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
c3b904bd3e405e41
SHA-256
c3b904bd3e405e41efd8a3d1cc94d4673c9fb59fc71899f7e6e2b213ed2424c6
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000598

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,380 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 772

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • horse (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • horse silhouette centered above text
  • text spans bottom third
  • glowing background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated horse silhouette facing left against a bright, glowing background with horizontal bands of yellow and orange. Below the horse, the text 'middle earth' appears in bold, yellow, pixelated letters with a red outline. The horse's head is slightly raised, and the background has a gradient from bright white at the top to darker orange at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a horse silhouette against a bright, glowing background with the text 'middle earth' in bold yellow letters below.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090926155429434938661

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • mysterious
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • horse silhouette middle earth
  • pixelated middle earth text
  • glowing background horse
  • retro digital art middle earth

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a single frame with no visible animation changes

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

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • horse

Visible Text

  • middle earth

Wordwall

  • horse silhouette
  • glowing background
  • yellow text
  • red outline
  • pixelated
  • middle earth
  • orange gradient
  • retro digital art
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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
20090926155429434938661
Archive entry
20090926155429434938661.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090926155429434938661.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090926155429434938661.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016