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Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object.

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Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object.

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Composition

  • cropped
  • asymmetrical
  • high contrast

Dense Caption

The image is a monochrome pixelated composition with high contrast between black and white areas. It features horizontal striped patterns on the left side, a vertical dark band running through the center, and irregular light and dark regions forming an abstract shape. The right portion contains a rounded form with gradient shading. The overall composition is cropped, with no clear facial features or distinct objects visible. The pixelation suggests a low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object.

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

  • pixelated monochrome abstract shape
  • high contrast horizontal stripes
  • cropped pixel art
  • monochrome gradient shading

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • high contrast
  • horizontal stripes
  • vertical dark band
  • abstract shape
  • gradient shading
  • cropped composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822075818220003058
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fc/fc5ffad7ad9cc7d5ac34ab8bc688c577b3247e45d542938f0b3d83f4117ca490.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
fc5ffad7ad9cc7d5
SHA-256
fc5ffad7ad9cc7d5ac34ab8bc688c577b3247e45d542938f0b3d83f4117ca490
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075844

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,591 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 622

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • cropped
  • asymmetrical
  • high contrast

Dense Caption

The image is a monochrome pixelated composition with high contrast between black and white areas. It features horizontal striped patterns on the left side, a vertical dark band running through the center, and irregular light and dark regions forming an abstract shape. The right portion contains a rounded form with gradient shading. The overall composition is cropped, with no clear facial features or distinct objects visible. The pixelation suggests a low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

Black-and-white pixelated image showing a partial figure with striped patterns and abstract shapes, likely a stylized representation of a character or object.

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

  • pixelated monochrome abstract shape
  • high contrast horizontal stripes
  • cropped pixel art
  • monochrome gradient shading

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • abstract

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • high contrast
  • horizontal stripes
  • vertical dark band
  • abstract shape
  • gradient shading
  • cropped composition
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:37 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
20070822075818220003058
Archive entry
20070822075818220003058.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822075818220003058.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822075818220003058.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016