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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations.

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Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations.

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; four static orientations of geometric shapes repeat across observations.

Composition

  • four text instances
  • four shape instances

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' appearing four times in a grid layout. Four white geometric shapes composed of squares and dots repeat in four distinct orientations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each shape consists of a central square with smaller squares and dots attached to its top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. The shapes are positioned between the text elements. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with sharp pixel edges and no visible animation or motion changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white text Sydney
  • pixelated Sydney geometric shapes
  • four Sydney text instances
  • white square dot shapes blue background
  • retro digital Sydney icon
  • Sydney text
  • white geometric shapes four orientations
  • blue pixel art Sydney icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: Sydney text grid layout

Visible Text

  • Sydney

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'Sydney' text
  • four 'Sydney' instances
  • four geometric shapes
  • square-dot composition
  • four orientations
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • sharp pixel edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070726161812265580566
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
484 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb76f558dad1da7d7e1e0e932cb9cb53427fe63debb2432eb95dc745d8047ae2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
fb76f558dad1da7d
SHA-256
fb76f558dad1da7d7e1e0e932cb9cb53427fe63debb2432eb95dc745d8047ae2
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 22:11 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000504

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,850 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 631

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • geometric shapes (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion changes; four static orientations of geometric shapes repeat across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four text instances
  • four shape instances

Dense Caption

Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' appearing four times in a grid layout. Four white geometric shapes composed of squares and dots repeat in four distinct orientations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. Each shape consists of a central square with smaller squares and dots attached to its top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners. The shapes are positioned between the text elements. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with sharp pixel edges and no visible animation or motion changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated text 'Sydney' and repeating white geometric shapes in four distinct orientations.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated Sydney geometric shapes
  • four Sydney text instances
  • white square dot shapes blue background
  • retro digital Sydney icon
  • Sydney text
  • white geometric shapes four orientations
  • blue pixel art Sydney icon

Objects

  • geometric shapes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: Sydney text grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Sydney

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'Sydney' text
  • four 'Sydney' instances
  • four geometric shapes
  • square-dot composition
  • four orientations
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • sharp pixel edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:22 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)
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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
20070726161812265580566
Archive entry
20070726161812265580566.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070726161812265580566.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070726161812265580566.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016