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A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments.

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A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments.

A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle motion blur across rainbow segments

Animation Summary

  • Subtle motion blur effect across rainbow gradient segments in circular icon with white border

Composition

  • circular

Dense Caption

Circular icon with rainbow gradient background (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) showing motion blur across segments. The icon has a white border and appears to be part of a grid layout with adjacent icons visible on the right and bottom. The image shows multiple frames of the same icon with slight variations in the motion blur effect across the rainbow segments. The icon's surface has a glossy appearance with light reflections visible on the white border. The background behind the icon is a light gray color. The icon appears to be a digital graphic with pixelated edges and low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809071454251442396539

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient circular icon
  • motion blur rainbow icon
  • white border rainbow icon
  • low-resolution rainbow icon
  • glossy rainbow icon
  • pixelated rainbow icon
  • rainbow icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image shows multiple frames of the same icon with slight variations in motion blur effect
  • quarantined wordwall: multiple frames
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: multiple frames rainbow icon
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout rainbow icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • circular shape
  • white border
  • motion blur
  • glossy surface
  • pixelated edges
  • low-resolution
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809071454251442396539
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/05/055af97b702b493320b6f5c9493ed76e4baaf1fdd5e883c0551f44fc2369fa64.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
055af97b702b4933
SHA-256
055af97b702b493320b6f5c9493ed76e4baaf1fdd5e883c0551f44fc2369fa64
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 23:22 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000030

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 10:54 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:27 UTC
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106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.082064

OpenAI category scores

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A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,951 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 873

Review tags

  • motion blur (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • white border (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • rainbow gradient (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • motion blur

Animation

  • subtle motion blur across rainbow segments

Animation Summary

  • Subtle motion blur effect across rainbow gradient segments in circular icon with white border

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • blue
  • purple
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • circular

Dense Caption

Circular icon with rainbow gradient background (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) showing motion blur across segments. The icon has a white border and appears to be part of a grid layout with adjacent icons visible on the right and bottom. The image shows multiple frames of the same icon with slight variations in the motion blur effect across the rainbow segments. The icon's surface has a glossy appearance with light reflections visible on the white border. The background behind the icon is a light gray color. The icon appears to be a digital graphic with pixelated edges and low-resolution rendering typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • A circular icon with a rainbow gradient background showing subtle motion blur across its segments.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809071454251442396539

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient circular icon
  • motion blur rainbow icon
  • white border rainbow icon
  • low-resolution rainbow icon
  • glossy rainbow icon
  • pixelated rainbow icon
  • rainbow icon

Objects

  • white border

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image shows multiple frames of the same icon with slight variations in motion blur effect
  • quarantined wordwall: multiple frames
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: multiple frames rainbow icon
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout rainbow icon

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • digital art
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • rainbow gradient

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient
  • circular shape
  • white border
  • motion blur
  • glossy surface
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  • low-resolution
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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
200809071454251442396539
Archive entry
200809071454251442396539.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809071454251442396539.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809071454251442396539.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016