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Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels.

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Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels.

Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • vertical stripe
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a dominant orange left section and a blue right section. A vertical blue stripe runs through the center, containing scattered white pixels. At the bottom left, white text reads "FRANKS" in a blocky font. The orange areas feature brown and red pixel clusters. The blue section includes dark brown and white pixel clusters. The overall composition is asymmetrical with no visible motion.

Description

Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels.

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

  • franks pixelated icon
  • orange blue text frank
  • franks white text icon
  • pixelated franks text

Visible Text

  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • orange pixel clusters
  • blue vertical stripe
  • white text FRANKS
  • scattered white pixels
  • brown pixel clusters
  • red pixel clusters
  • asymmetrical composition
  • blocky text font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830222919154887389
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/df6045aedc28e2ebbe730c6289fb23c2f13d3ff449c662a944f168d9c67e4215.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
df6045aedc28e2eb
SHA-256
df6045aedc28e2ebbe730c6289fb23c2f13d3ff449c662a944f168d9c67e4215
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075568

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924432onnx/unsafe0.075568onnx/nsfw0.040842onnx/nsfl0.034726
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,493 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 652

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • vertical stripe
  • text at bottom left

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a dominant orange left section and a blue right section. A vertical blue stripe runs through the center, containing scattered white pixels. At the bottom left, white text reads "FRANKS" in a blocky font. The orange areas feature brown and red pixel clusters. The blue section includes dark brown and white pixel clusters. The overall composition is asymmetrical with no visible motion.

Description

Pixelated image with orange and blue color blocks, white text reading "FRANKS" at bottom left, and a central blue vertical stripe with scattered white pixels.

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

  • franks pixelated icon
  • orange blue text frank
  • franks white text icon
  • pixelated franks text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • static

Visible Text

  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • orange pixel clusters
  • blue vertical stripe
  • white text FRANKS
  • scattered white pixels
  • brown pixel clusters
  • red pixel clusters
  • asymmetrical composition
  • blocky text font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:43 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070830222919154887389
Archive entry
20070830222919154887389.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830222919154887389.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830222919154887389.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016