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Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames.

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Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames.

Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • subtle ray rendering differences between frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle variations in ray rendering across of the same sun icon

Composition

  • central placement
  • empty bottom-right

Dense Caption

Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background. Each sun has a central yellow circle with radiating rays extending outward. The rays are composed of multiple thin, light yellow lines. The top-left sun has slightly more distinct ray lines compared to the top-right and bottom-left suns. The bottom-right corner of the image contains a solid gray rectangular area. The sun icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid with the bottom-right cell empty. The image shows subtle pixel variations across the three sun icons, indicating minor differences in ray rendering between frames.

Description

  • Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames.

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
  • 20080707212023129774757
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sun icon
  • radiating rays
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • subtle pixel variations
  • simplified sun

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner may be a placeholder or artifact
  • quarantined animationSummary: Subtle variations in ray rendering across three frames of the same sun icon.
  • quarantined wordwall: empty bottom-right cell
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: empty bottom-right cell
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

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

  • yellow sun
  • radiating rays
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • central circle
  • light yellow lines
  • subtle pixel variations
  • three identical icons
  • empty bottom-right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080707212023129774757
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1b/1bd72947a15827fc1fd0b5e148d5d7e74e79799abd46370eefdd97405878b410.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
1bd72947a15827fc
SHA-256
1bd72947a15827fc1fd0b5e148d5d7e74e79799abd46370eefdd97405878b410
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:12 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075102

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924898onnx/unsafe0.075102onnx/nsfw0.042525onnx/nsfl0.032578
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Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,426 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 843

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • bright (mood, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • subtle ray rendering differences between frames (other, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • sun (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • subtle ray rendering differences between frames

Animation Summary

  • Subtle variations in ray rendering across of the same sun icon

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central placement
  • empty bottom-right

Dense Caption

Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background. Each sun has a central yellow circle with radiating rays extending outward. The rays are composed of multiple thin, light yellow lines. The top-left sun has slightly more distinct ray lines compared to the top-right and bottom-left suns. The bottom-right corner of the image contains a solid gray rectangular area. The sun icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid with the bottom-right cell empty. The image shows subtle pixel variations across the three sun icons, indicating minor differences in ray rendering between frames.

Description

  • Three identical yellow sun icons with radiating rays on white background, each with subtle pixel variations across frames.

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
  • 20080707212023129774757
  • unconfirmed retrieval not promoted: buddy icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • bright

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sun icon
  • radiating rays
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • subtle pixel variations
  • simplified sun

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle in bottom-right corner may be a placeholder or artifact
  • quarantined animationSummary: Subtle variations in ray rendering across three frames of the same sun icon.
  • quarantined wordwall: empty bottom-right cell
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: empty bottom-right cell
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

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

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • simplified

Subjects

  • sun

Wordwall

  • yellow sun
  • radiating rays
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
  • central circle
  • light yellow lines
  • subtle pixel variations
  • three identical icons
  • empty bottom-right
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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
20080707212023129774757
Archive entry
20080707212023129774757.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080707212023129774757.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080707212023129774757.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016