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Static grayscale image showing a pixelated date stamp and abstract shapes resembling a sword or scythe on a light background.

Static grayscale image showing a pixelated date stamp and abstract shapes resembling a sword or scythe on a light background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left date text
  • diagonal central shape
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution grayscale composition. At the top left, black blocky text reads '11-09-07'. Below this, multiple gray-scale pixel clusters form an elongated diagonal shape with irregular segments; these resemble a stylized sword or scythe blade and handle. The background consists of light gray pixels with subtle darker shading variations. No human figures, animals, or distinct symbols are visible beyond the date text and abstract shapes.

Description

  • Static grayscale image showing a pixelated date stamp and abstract shapes resembling a sword or scythe on a light background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101643291603328378

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 11-09-07 grayscale pixelated sword
  • date stamp abstract shape light background
  • grayscale 11-09-07 sword-like shape

Visible Text

  • 11-09-07

Wordwall

  • 11-09-07
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • date stamp
  • abstract sword-like shape
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711101643291603328378
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c59f1a45e2eba1e93191195df87da0cb1b3ae253e8d22674528301d2d5ff5fb6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
c59f1a45e2eba1e9
SHA-256
c59f1a45e2eba1e93191195df87da0cb1b3ae253e8d22674528301d2d5ff5fb6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.201648

OpenAI category scores

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Static grayscale image showing a pixelated date stamp and abstract shapes resembling a sword or scythe on a light background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,624 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 648

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • sword like abstract shape (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • top-left date text
  • diagonal central shape
  • light background

Dense Caption

The image is a static, low-resolution grayscale composition. At the top left, black blocky text reads '11-09-07'. Below this, multiple gray-scale pixel clusters form an elongated diagonal shape with irregular segments; these resemble a stylized sword or scythe blade and handle. The background consists of light gray pixels with subtle darker shading variations. No human figures, animals, or distinct symbols are visible beyond the date text and abstract shapes.

Description

  • Static grayscale image showing a pixelated date stamp and abstract shapes resembling a sword or scythe on a light background.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711101643291603328378

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 11-09-07 grayscale pixelated sword
  • date stamp abstract shape light background
  • grayscale 11-09-07 sword-like shape

Objects

  • sword-like abstract shape

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • grayscale

Visible Text

  • 11-09-07

Wordwall

  • 11-09-07
  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • date stamp
  • abstract sword-like shape
  • light background
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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
200711101643291603328378
Archive entry
200711101643291603328378.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#200711101643291603328378.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711101643291603328378.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016