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Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols.

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Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols.

Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal bands
  • text-centered
  • symmetrical elements

Dense Caption

The image consists of horizontal bands: a pink top band with two white pixelated hearts; a green band with white plus signs; a cyan band with white skull-and-crossbones; a pink band with one white pixelated heart; a green band with black text; and a cyan band with white skull-and-crossbones. Text elements include 'Middle' in blue with a dark blue outline, 'School' in pink with a yellow outline, and 'West' in black with a white outline. The right side of the image is a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols.

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

  • middle school west
  • pixelated hearts plus signs
  • cyan skull-and-crossbones
  • blue middle pink school black west

Visible Text

  • Middle
  • School
  • West

Wordwall

  • pink top band
  • white pixelated hearts
  • green band with plus signs
  • cyan band with skull-and-crossbones
  • black text 'West'
  • blue text 'Middle'
  • pink text 'School'
  • gray rectangle
  • horizontal bands
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808260912541449900975
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cf/cfad644469f6a13840786bf73b9d1e08b05b15fa7192fda78468f50e94702676.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
cfad644469f6a138
SHA-256
cfad644469f6a13840786bf73b9d1e08b05b15fa7192fda78468f50e94702676
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 21:44 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000499

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000499falsesexual0.000095falseharassment0.000050falseviolence/graphic0.000035falsesexual/minors0.000019falsehate0.000012falseself-harm0.000012falseillicit0.000011falseharassment/threatening0.000008falseself-harm/intent0.000004falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000001false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074341

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934889onnx/unsafe0.074341onnx/nsfw0.043217onnx/nsfl0.031125
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,333 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 650

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • cyan
  • white
  • blue
  • yellow
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal bands
  • text-centered
  • symmetrical elements

Dense Caption

The image consists of horizontal bands: a pink top band with two white pixelated hearts; a green band with white plus signs; a cyan band with white skull-and-crossbones; a pink band with one white pixelated heart; a green band with black text; and a cyan band with white skull-and-crossbones. Text elements include 'Middle' in blue with a dark blue outline, 'School' in pink with a yellow outline, and 'West' in black with a white outline. The right side of the image is a solid gray rectangle.

Description

  • Pixelated graphic with pink, green, and cyan horizontal bands containing text and symbols.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • middle school west
  • pixelated hearts plus signs
  • cyan skull-and-crossbones
  • blue middle pink school black west

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-heavy

Visible Text

  • Middle
  • School
  • West

Wordwall

  • pink top band
  • white pixelated hearts
  • green band with plus signs
  • cyan band with skull-and-crossbones
  • black text 'West'
  • blue text 'Middle'
  • pink text 'School'
  • gray rectangle
  • horizontal bands
  • pixelated style
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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
200808260912541449900975
Archive entry
200808260912541449900975.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808260912541449900975.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808260912541449900975.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016