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Pixelated image of a sign reading 'Paris...' above a tower against a sunset sky.

Pixelated image of a sign reading 'Paris...' above a tower against a sunset sky. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • sign at top
  • tower centered below sign
  • sky background
  • cityscape at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a black rectangular sign with white text 'Paris...' in blocky font, positioned above a tall brown tower structure. The background features a gradient sky transitioning from deep orange at the bottom to bright yellow and white at the top, suggesting a sunset. The lower portion of the image contains dark brown pixelated shapes resembling a cityscape. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a sign reading 'Paris...' above a tower against a sunset sky.

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
  • 20120915204124505878273
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Paris sign tower sunset
  • pixelated Paris sign
  • brown tower sunset sky
  • cityscape pixelated sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels show no motion or additional context

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels show no motion or additional context

Visible Text

  • Paris...

Wordwall

  • 'Paris...' text
  • black sign
  • brown tower
  • sunset sky
  • orange-yellow gradient
  • dark cityscape
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • blocky font
  • tall structure

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20120915204124505878273
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db9aa12e41999779e39fca887216cea03edc6592465687029bb207e67ca354d9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
db9aa12e41999779
SHA-256
db9aa12e41999779e39fca887216cea03edc6592465687029bb207e67ca354d9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072511

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a sign reading 'Paris...' above a tower against a sunset sky.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,443 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 687

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • serene (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cityscape (subject, 0.80)
  • sign (subject, 0.80)
  • tower (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • sign at top
  • tower centered below sign
  • sky background
  • cityscape at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated static image shows a black rectangular sign with white text 'Paris...' in blocky font, positioned above a tall brown tower structure. The background features a gradient sky transitioning from deep orange at the bottom to bright yellow and white at the top, suggesting a sunset. The lower portion of the image contains dark brown pixelated shapes resembling a cityscape. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a sign reading 'Paris...' above a tower against a sunset sky.

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
  • 20120915204124505878273
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • serene
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Paris sign tower sunset
  • pixelated Paris sign
  • brown tower sunset sky
  • cityscape pixelated sign

Objects

  • sign
  • tower
  • cityscape

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels show no motion or additional context

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains multiple era and collection hints but pixels show no motion or additional context

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • sign
  • tower
  • cityscape

Visible Text

  • Paris...

Wordwall

  • 'Paris...' text
  • black sign
  • brown tower
  • sunset sky
  • orange-yellow gradient
  • dark cityscape
  • pixelated
  • static image
  • blocky font
  • tall structure
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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
20120915204124505878273
Archive entry
20120915204124505878273.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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

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