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Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right.

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Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right.

Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • like arrangement of circles
  • three tree-K pairs
  • two '<B' symbol pairs
  • partial gray overlay on right-bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital artwork composed of multiple colored circles (cyan, pink, orange, light green) arranged in rows. Three distinct instances feature a green tree-like shape above a black 'K' character; two additional instances show the same 'K' with a cyan circle and dark green '<B' symbol below it. The rightmost section is partially obscured by a solid gray rectangle covering approximately one-quarter of the bottom-right area. All elements maintain consistent pixelation across all visible sections.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink orange light green circles
  • green tree K symbols
  • <B symbol pixel art
  • gray rectangle overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of circles

Visible Text

  • K
  • <B

Visually Supported Entities

  • K
  • <B

Wordwall

  • cyan circles
  • pink circles
  • orange circles
  • light green circles
  • green tree shapes
  • black 'K' symbols
  • <B symbol
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated rendering
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710062146051047310828
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
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/310ce750aee4f2d52f2a490593de244a19798e452d397ee044d2263517c45dc1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
310ce750aee4f2d5
SHA-256
310ce750aee4f2d52f2a490593de244a19798e452d397ee044d2263517c45dc1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.081648

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.932192onnx/unsafe0.081648onnx/nsfw0.049538onnx/nsfl0.032110
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,983 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 668

Review tags

  • black k characters (object, 0.80)
  • cyan circles (object, 0.80)
  • dark green b symbols (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • green tree shapes (object, 0.80)
  • light green circles (object, 0.80)
  • orange circles (object, 0.80)
  • pink circles (object, 0.80)
  • b symbols (subject, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • k characters (subject, 0.80)
  • tree shapes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • orange
  • light green
  • black
  • dark green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • like arrangement of circles
  • three tree-K pairs
  • two '<B' symbol pairs
  • partial gray overlay on right-bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated digital artwork composed of multiple colored circles (cyan, pink, orange, light green) arranged in rows. Three distinct instances feature a green tree-like shape above a black 'K' character; two additional instances show the same 'K' with a cyan circle and dark green '<B' symbol below it. The rightmost section is partially obscured by a solid gray rectangle covering approximately one-quarter of the bottom-right area. All elements maintain consistent pixelation across all visible sections.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with repeating circular shapes and green 'K' symbols on white background, partially cropped at bottom right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan pink orange light green circles
  • green tree K symbols
  • <B symbol pixel art
  • gray rectangle overlay

Objects

  • cyan circles
  • pink circles
  • orange circles
  • light green circles
  • green tree shapes
  • black 'K' characters
  • dark green '<B' symbols
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement of circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • circles
  • tree shapes
  • 'K' characters
  • '<B' symbols

Visible Text

  • K
  • <B

Visually Supported Entities

  • K
  • <B

Wordwall

  • cyan circles
  • pink circles
  • orange circles
  • light green circles
  • green tree shapes
  • black 'K' symbols
  • <B symbol
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated rendering
  • white background
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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
200710062146051047310828
Archive entry
200710062146051047310828.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#200710062146051047310828.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710062146051047310828.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016