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Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner

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Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner

Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform spacing
  • bottom-right corner symbols

Dense Caption

Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left square is empty. Top-right square contains a small black heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. Bottom-left square is empty. Bottom-right square contains a small black asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All squares have uniform yellow fill and black border lines.

Description

  • Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow squares black borders
  • heart asterisk
  • bottom-right corner symbols
  • minimalist geometric pixelated
  • empty squares heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol yellow background
  • black lines yellow fill
  • symmetrical layout uniform spacing

Objects

  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid heart asterisk

Wordwall

  • yellow squares
  • black borders
  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • empty squares
  • uniform fill
  • black lines
  • bottom-right symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2010022417020248087654
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
272 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
d0fdbf2166d91961
SHA-256
d0fdbf2166d919612bae45da05ffc2b70ef41fae62c3c72889ba2db1982718b6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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
0.109905

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,173 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • simple (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • uniform spacing
  • bottom-right corner symbols

Dense Caption

Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left square is empty. Top-right square contains a small black heart symbol in the bottom-right corner. Bottom-left square is empty. Bottom-right square contains a small black asterisk-like symbol in the bottom-right corner. All squares have uniform yellow fill and black border lines.

Description

  • Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a , each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • simple

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow squares black borders
  • heart asterisk
  • bottom-right corner symbols
  • minimalist geometric pixelated
  • empty squares heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol yellow background
  • black lines yellow fill
  • symmetrical layout uniform spacing

Objects

  • heart
  • asterisk

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four yellow squares with black borders arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing a small black symbol in the bottom-right corner.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid heart asterisk

Style

  • minimalist
  • geometric
  • pixelated

Wordwall

  • yellow squares
  • black borders
  • heart symbol
  • asterisk symbol
  • empty squares
  • uniform fill
  • black lines
  • bottom-right symbols
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
2010022417020248087654
Archive entry
2010022417020248087654.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#2010022417020248087654.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2010022417020248087654.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016