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Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center.

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Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center.

Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four distinct icons

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 grid of four distinct pixel art icons. Top-left: Rainbow gradient background (red to purple) with horizontal bands; two black angular shapes resembling abstract letters or symbols ('A' and 'W') over blue water-like patterns. Top-right: Purple background with rainbow arc, teal character with large eyes wearing headphones, speech bubble containing indistinct text, and a cassette tape graphic. Bottom-left: Black background with pixelated white text reading "I'm a Dino-Py to be..." (partially obscured), purple dinosaur silhouette. Bottom-right: White background with blue cartoon shark holding green block lettering "RAW R".

Description

  • Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient geometric shapes
  • teal character headphones speech bubble
  • purple dinosaur white text
  • blue shark green block letters

Objects

  • speech bubble

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • I'm a Dino-Py to be...
  • RAW R

Visually Supported Entities

  • dinosaur silhouette
  • shark character

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • black angular shapes
  • blue water patterns
  • teal character
  • headphones
  • speech bubble
  • cassette tape
  • purple dinosaur
  • white text
  • green block letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090707191315419243275
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907071913141374320156
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dc257a52c7f38b49d92bc06e3cdd2d5e0b3139cd90de5924314bcaa9d6acd23d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
dc257a52c7f38b49
SHA-256
dc257a52c7f38b49d92bc06e3cdd2d5e0b3139cd90de5924314bcaa9d6acd23d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 14:18 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000064

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000064falseviolence0.000017falseharassment0.000008falseself-harm0.000007falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseself-harm/intent0.000004falsehate0.000002falseillicit0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

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 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081136

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929983onnx/unsafe0.081136onnx/nsfw0.045659onnx/nsfl0.035477
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
4,334 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,152, response 683

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • wearing (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cassette tape (object, 0.80)
  • headphones (object, 0.80)
  • speech bubble (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • dinosaur silhouette (subject, 0.80)
  • geometric shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • shark (subject, 0.80)
  • teal character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • wearing

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • black
  • white
  • teal
  • gray
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • four distinct icons

Dense Caption

The image displays a 2x2 grid of four distinct pixel art icons. Top-left: Rainbow gradient background (red to purple) with horizontal bands; two black angular shapes resembling abstract letters or symbols ('A' and 'W') over blue water-like patterns. Top-right: Purple background with rainbow arc, teal character with large eyes wearing headphones, speech bubble containing indistinct text, and a cassette tape graphic. Bottom-left: Black background with pixelated white text reading "I'm a Dino-Py to be..." (partially obscured), purple dinosaur silhouette. Bottom-right: White background with blue cartoon shark holding green block lettering "RAW R".

Description

  • Rainbow gradient background with black geometric shapes and blue water-like patterns, featuring a stylized 'A' and 'W' in the center.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient geometric shapes
  • teal character headphones speech bubble
  • purple dinosaur white text
  • blue shark green block letters

Objects

  • headphones
  • speech bubble
  • cassette tape

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • geometric shapes
  • teal character
  • dinosaur silhouette
  • shark

Visible Text

  • I'm a Dino-Py to be...
  • RAW R

Visually Supported Entities

  • dinosaur silhouette
  • shark character

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • black angular shapes
  • blue water patterns
  • teal character
  • headphones
  • speech bubble
  • cassette tape
  • purple dinosaur
  • white text
  • green block letters
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Full source records (2)

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
20090707191315419243275
Archive entry
20090707191315419243275.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090707191315419243275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090707191315419243275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200907071913141374320156
Archive entry
200907071913141374320156.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#200907071913141374320156.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907071913141374320156.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016