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Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay.

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Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay.

Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • text fragments
  • solid gray block

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black-and-white pixelated background with visible text fragments: 'The' in the top-left, 'Automatic' in the top-right, and 'Automatic' in the bottom-left. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right portion. The text appears in a bold, pixelated font. The background shows indistinct shapes and light reflections. The image is divided into four quadrants with the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left containing text and the bottom-right being a solid gray block.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay.

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

  • black-and-white pixelated text fragments
  • gray rectangle four-quadrant layout
  • Automatic The text
  • pixelated monochrome image

Visible Text

  • The
  • Automatic

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated
  • text fragments
  • The
  • Automatic
  • gray rectangle
  • bold pixelated font
  • indistinct background shapes
  • four-quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070729162837302665500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fec53510f3e9d05c858c92e4a86690dea865b5a835d9068ed0df433658199ab2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
fec53510f3e9d05c
SHA-256
fec53510f3e9d05c858c92e4a86690dea865b5a835d9068ed0df433658199ab2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096500

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913875onnx/unsafe0.096500onnx/nsfw0.057316onnx/nsfl0.039185
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 616

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • text fragments
  • solid gray block

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black-and-white pixelated background with visible text fragments: 'The' in the top-left, 'Automatic' in the top-right, and 'Automatic' in the bottom-left. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right portion. The text appears in a bold, pixelated font. The background shows indistinct shapes and light reflections. The image is divided into four quadrants with the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left containing text and the bottom-right being a solid gray block.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image with partial text fragments and a gray rectangular overlay.

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

  • black-and-white pixelated text fragments
  • gray rectangle four-quadrant layout
  • Automatic The text
  • pixelated monochrome image

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • The
  • Automatic

Wordwall

  • black-and-white pixelated
  • text fragments
  • The
  • Automatic
  • gray rectangle
  • bold pixelated font
  • indistinct background shapes
  • four-quadrant layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:43 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)
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
20070729162837302665500
Archive entry
20070729162837302665500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070729162837302665500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070729162837302665500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016