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Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones.

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Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones.

Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • foreground red shape with text
  • background split into gray and orange sections
  • small light blue section top-left

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static pixel art composition. In the foreground, a red, rounded rectangular shape contains white text that appears to read "U" and "S" with a partial character between them. The background consists of a light gray textured area on the left, a dark vertical line separating it from a large orange-brown gradient on the right, and a small light blue section at the top left. The overall image has a blocky, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color blending typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones.

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

  • red shape white text gray background
  • pixelated orange gradient
  • U S text red shape
  • light blue section dark vertical line

Uncertain Text

  • partial character between U and S

Visible Text

  • U
  • S

Wordwall

  • red shape
  • white text
  • gray background
  • orange gradient
  • pixelated
  • textured area
  • light blue section
  • dark vertical line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708031143401795571158
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e3da2e3b01b63746fc201942d74a12ca4a273ad59aa019d043f602381b5866af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
e3da2e3b01b63746
SHA-256
e3da2e3b01b63746fc201942d74a12ca4a273ad59aa019d043f602381b5866af
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076334

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 18:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,681 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 709

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dark vertical line (object, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • light blue section (object, 0.80)
  • orange gradient (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • red shape (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • gray
  • orange
  • brown
  • light blue
  • dark gray

Composition

  • foreground red shape with text
  • background split into gray and orange sections
  • small light blue section top-left

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static pixel art composition. In the foreground, a red, rounded rectangular shape contains white text that appears to read "U" and "S" with a partial character between them. The background consists of a light gray textured area on the left, a dark vertical line separating it from a large orange-brown gradient on the right, and a small light blue section at the top left. The overall image has a blocky, pixelated appearance with visible dithering and color blending typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows a red object with white text on a background of gray and orange tones.

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

  • red shape white text gray background
  • pixelated orange gradient
  • U S text red shape
  • light blue section dark vertical line

Objects

  • red shape
  • text
  • gray background
  • orange gradient
  • light blue section
  • dark vertical line

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • red shape
  • text

Uncertain Text

  • partial character between U and S

Visible Text

  • U
  • S

Wordwall

  • red shape
  • white text
  • gray background
  • orange gradient
  • pixelated
  • textured area
  • light blue section
  • dark vertical line
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:17 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)
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
200708031143401795571158
Archive entry
200708031143401795571158.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708031143401795571158.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708031143401795571158.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016