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A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery.

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A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery.

A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Source terms

Composition

  • grid layout
  • 5x5 arrangement
  • uniform square tiles

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of small square icons. Each icon features unique visual elements: some contain solid colors like bright pink, teal, or dark gray; others show pixelated patterns resembling abstract shapes, partial faces, or indistinct objects. Colors include shades of blue, green, purple, brown, and white. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or recognizable figures are present in any icon.

Description

  • A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery.

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
  • 20071011165804323099737

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grid icons
  • low-resolution abstract squares
  • 5x5 color palette tiles
  • stylized pixel art collection

Wordwall

  • 5x5 grid
  • pixelated icons
  • solid color squares
  • abstract patterns
  • teal elements
  • pink square
  • dark gray areas
  • white borders
  • low-resolution
  • stylized shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071011165804323099737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/3039793d596dd47e0f36564f9576f18427de1b411fd1944453b73e358c2aabc1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
3039793d596dd47e
SHA-256
3039793d596dd47e0f36564f9576f18427de1b411fd1944453b73e358c2aabc1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.338490

OpenAI category scores

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A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,662 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 656

Review tags

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Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • purple
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • teal
  • gray

Composition

  • grid layout
  • 5x5 arrangement
  • uniform square tiles

Dense Caption

The image displays a 5x5 grid of small square icons. Each icon features unique visual elements: some contain solid colors like bright pink, teal, or dark gray; others show pixelated patterns resembling abstract shapes, partial faces, or indistinct objects. Colors include shades of blue, green, purple, brown, and white. The overall style is low-resolution with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics. No text or recognizable figures are present in any icon.

Description

  • A static grid of 25 pixelated icons arranged in five rows and columns, each with distinct color palettes and abstract or stylized imagery.

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
  • 20071011165804323099737

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated grid icons
  • low-resolution abstract squares
  • 5x5 color palette tiles
  • stylized pixel art collection

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • abstract
  • stylized

Wordwall

  • 5x5 grid
  • pixelated icons
  • solid color squares
  • abstract patterns
  • teal elements
  • pink square
  • dark gray areas
  • white borders
  • low-resolution
  • stylized shapes
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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
20071011165804323099737
Archive entry
20071011165804323099737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071011165804323099737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071011165804323099737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016