Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.

Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bordered square
  • horizontal rows of text
  • centered cursive word

Dense Caption

Brown rectangular border frames the entire square image. White background fills the interior space. Blue-gray pixelated characters form two horizontal rows: top row reads "rd d o r d" (with partial letters), bottom row reads "b i n e l e s" (with partial letters). Centered brown cursive text spans horizontally across the middle, reading "prefers" with a stylized loop on the 'f'. All elements are static and pixelated.

Description

  • Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.

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
  • 200809141903251629509476

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown border white background cursive prefers
  • blue-gray text rows pixelated image
  • text-based buddy icon brown cursive word
  • franksicons 200809141903251629509476

Visible Text

  • rd d o r d
  • b i n e l e s
  • prefers

Wordwall

  • brown border
  • white background
  • blue-gray top row text
  • blue-gray bottom row text
  • cursive brown center text
  • "prefers" cursive word
  • pixelated rendering
  • horizontal text rows

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809141903251629509476
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
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31bd4a6aaa648d5f1655e54afc93a1553629b77c81bc3e7c5ddf719eee3daee7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
31bd4a6aaa648d5f
SHA-256
31bd4a6aaa648d5f1655e54afc93a1553629b77c81bc3e7c5ddf719eee3daee7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075035

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924965onnx/unsafe0.075035onnx/nsfw0.041651onnx/nsfl0.033384
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,437 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 679

Review tags

  • blue gray (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cursive text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based composition (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • blue-gray

Composition

  • bordered square
  • horizontal rows of text
  • centered cursive word

Dense Caption

Brown rectangular border frames the entire square image. White background fills the interior space. Blue-gray pixelated characters form two horizontal rows: top row reads "rd d o r d" (with partial letters), bottom row reads "b i n e l e s" (with partial letters). Centered brown cursive text spans horizontally across the middle, reading "prefers" with a stylized loop on the 'f'. All elements are static and pixelated.

Description

  • Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.

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
  • 200809141903251629509476

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown border white background cursive prefers
  • blue-gray text rows pixelated image
  • text-based buddy icon brown cursive word
  • franksicons 200809141903251629509476

Style

  • pixelated
  • cursive text
  • text-based composition

Visible Text

  • rd d o r d
  • b i n e l e s
  • prefers

Wordwall

  • brown border
  • white background
  • blue-gray top row text
  • blue-gray bottom row text
  • cursive brown center text
  • "prefers" cursive word
  • pixelated rendering
  • horizontal text rows
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "31bd4a6aaa648d5f1655e54afc93a1553629b77c81bc3e7c5ddf719eee3daee7",
  "description": "Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.",
  "denseCaption": "Brown rectangular border frames the entire square image. White background fills the interior space. Blue-gray pixelated characters form two horizontal rows: top row reads \u0022rd d o r d\u0022 (with partial letters), bottom row reads \u0022b i n e l e s\u0022 (with partial letters). Centered brown cursive text spans horizontally across the middle, reading \u0022prefers\u0022 with a stylized loop on the \u0027f\u0027. All elements are static and pixelated.",
  "wordwall": [
    "brown border",
    "white background",
    "blue-gray top row text",
    "blue-gray bottom row text",
    "cursive brown center text",
    "\u0022prefers\u0022 cursive word",
    "pixelated rendering",
    "horizontal text rows"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "rd d o r d",
    "b i n e l e s",
    "prefers"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "brown",
    "white",
    "blue-gray"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "cursive text",
    "text-based composition"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "bordered square",
    "horizontal rows of text",
    "centered cursive word"
  ],
  "mood": [],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "200809141903251629509476"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "brown border white background cursive prefers",
    "blue-gray text rows pixelated image",
    "text-based buddy icon brown cursive word",
    "franksicons 200809141903251629509476"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "cursive text",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: cursive text"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text based composition",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text-based composition"
    },
    {
      "tag": "brown",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: brown"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue-gray"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "31bd4a6aaa648d5f1655e54afc93a1553629b77c81bc3e7c5ddf719eee3daee7",
        "description": "Pixelated image with brown border, blue-gray text fragments above and below a central cursive brown word on white background.",
        "denseCaption": "Brown rectangular border frames the entire square image. White background fills the interior space. Blue-gray pixelated characters form two horizontal rows: top row reads \u0022rd d o r d\u0022 (with partial letters), bottom row reads \u0022b i n e l e s\u0022 (with partial letters). Centered brown cursive text spans horizontally across the middle, reading \u0022prefers\u0022 with a stylized loop on the \u0027f\u0027. All elements are static and pixelated.",
        "wordwall": [
          "brown border",
          "white background",
          "blue-gray top row text",
          "blue-gray bottom row text",
          "cursive brown center text",
          "\u0022prefers\u0022 cursive word",
          "pixelated rendering",
          "horizontal text rows"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "rd d o r d",
          "b i n e l e s",
          "prefers"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "brown",
          "white",
          "blue-gray"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "cursive text",
          "text-based composition"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "bordered square",
          "horizontal rows of text",
          "centered cursive word"
        ],
        "mood": [],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "200809141903251629509476"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "brown border white background cursive prefers",
          "blue-gray text rows pixelated image",
          "text-based buddy icon brown cursive word",
          "franksicons 200809141903251629509476"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200809141903251629509476
Archive entry
200809141903251629509476.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#200809141903251629509476.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809141903251629509476.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016