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A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes.

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A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes.

A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and pur…

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Composition

  • central H
  • surrounding colorful shapes
  • white background

Dense Caption

The central element is a large, bold, stylized capital letter H with thick black outlines and white fill. The H is positioned in the center of the image. Surrounding the H are pixelated background elements: on the left, a red and orange shape resembling a flame or abstract figure; above and to the right of the H, a yellow pixelated area; to the right of the H, a blue and green pixelated shape; and on the far right, a purple pixelated shape. The background is predominantly white. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes.

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

  • stylized H pixelated background
  • black white H colorful shapes
  • pixelated H with red yellow green blue purple
  • central H surrounded by abstract shapes

Visible Text

  • H

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  • stylized H
  • black outline
  • white fill
  • red pixelated shape
  • yellow pixelated shape
  • green pixelated shape
  • blue pixelated shape
  • purple pixelated shape
  • white background
  • pixelated graphics
  • low resolution
  • central composition
  • thick borders
  • colorful background
  • abstract shapes

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902182005432091009891
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
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 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
c59d8f9ebf2a89bd
SHA-256
c59d8f9ebf2a89bda3e27fa85b91a25cbf47eebe274a8c8f405d6a7b976ecde1
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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000016

OpenAI category scores

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Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
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Overall label
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A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,692 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 743

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
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  • stylized letter h (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • central H
  • surrounding colorful shapes
  • white background

Dense Caption

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Description

A large black and white stylized letter H with thick borders dominates the center, surrounded by colorful pixelated background elements including red, yellow, green, blue, and purple shapes.

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

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  • black white H colorful shapes
  • pixelated H with red yellow green blue purple
  • central H surrounded by abstract shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized
  • graphic

Subjects

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  • pixelated background shapes

Visible Text

  • H

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  • abstract shapes
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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
200902182005432091009891
Archive entry
200902182005432091009891.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902182005432091009891.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902182005432091009891.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016