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Black square with white pixelated border fragments at corners and edges, no visible text or symbols.

Black square with white pixelated border fragments at corners and edges, no visible text or symbols. 50×50 JPG AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures, Mid-20…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central black area
  • corner and edge border fragments

Dense Caption

The image is a black square. White pixelated fragments form partial borders along the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners, as well as along the left edge near the bottom and right edge near the bottom. The central area is solid black with no visible text, symbols, or additional elements.

Description

  • Black square with white pixelated border fragments at corners and edges, no visible text or symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyicons
  • e

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black square white border fragments
  • pixelated corner fragments black background

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white pixelated border fragments
  • top-left corner
  • top-right corner
  • bottom-left corner
  • bottom-right corner
  • left edge partial
  • right edge partial

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures

Source title
ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed

Source title
ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / e
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
JPG
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/c3/c3bd2b7e50f900d3cdebae2187141b3e2c484e6d5f3cef59ca56f783cc28f3a1.jpg
Media type
image/jpeg
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Archive ID
c3bd2b7e50f900d3
SHA-256
c3bd2b7e50f900d3cdebae2187141b3e2c484e6d5f3cef59ca56f783cc28f3a1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102731

OpenAI category scores

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

Black square with white pixelated border fragments at corners and edges, no visible text or symbols.

Reviewed
July 25, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
49
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,135 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 473

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central black area
  • corner and edge border fragments

Dense Caption

The image is a black square. White pixelated fragments form partial borders along the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners, as well as along the left edge near the bottom and right edge near the bottom. The central area is solid black with no visible text, symbols, or additional elements.

Description

  • Black square with white pixelated border fragments at corners and edges, no visible text or symbols.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): buddy-icons-us
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-us
  • provenance era: 2003
  • provenance era: 2008
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddyicons
  • e

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black square white border fragments
  • pixelated corner fragments black background

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • black square
  • white pixelated border fragments
  • top-left corner
  • top-right corner
  • bottom-left corner
  • bottom-right corner
  • left edge partial
  • right edge partial
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 23:24 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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Full source records (2)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-jpegs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 23:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
JPEG AIM-era buddy-icon material from a dedicated portal domain
Original: http://buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY.jpg Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060614150358id_/http://buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY.jpg 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us JPEG Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-jpegs-relaxed)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / e
Alt
ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 04:20 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size JPEG AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format candidates
Original: http://buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/e/ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY.jpg Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060614150358id_/http://buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/e/ef919cfda5a-IMBUDDY.jpg