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Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient background.

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Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient background.

Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping circles
  • horizontal curved line
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a monochrome pixelated composition featuring two prominent circular forms with bright white centers and dark outer edges. A thick, dark curved line extends horizontally beneath the circles, creating a shadow or base effect. The background consists of a gradient of gray tones with visible pixelation. No text, facial features, or distinct objects are present. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with no discernible motion or animation.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated circles gradient background
  • monochrome circular shapes
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dark curved line background
  • gray gradient circles
  • pixelated monochrome art
  • circular shapes dark line
  • monochrome pixel art circles

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  • monochrome
  • pixelated
  • two circular shapes
  • dark curved line
  • gradient background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • no text
  • no facial features
  • no distinct objects

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070814091724752548697
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32169df50684fa8c34d578e8348371f536950813a79d94a1a430adf636d11f6c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
32169df50684fa8c
SHA-256
32169df50684fa8c34d578e8348371f536950813a79d94a1a430adf636d11f6c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081409

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,772 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 668

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

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  • overlapping circles
  • horizontal curved line
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a monochrome pixelated composition featuring two prominent circular forms with bright white centers and dark outer edges. A thick, dark curved line extends horizontally beneath the circles, creating a shadow or base effect. The background consists of a gradient of gray tones with visible pixelation. No text, facial features, or distinct objects are present. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with no discernible motion or animation.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image of two overlapping circular shapes with a dark curved line beneath them, set against a gradient 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated circles gradient background
  • monochrome circular shapes
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dark curved line background
  • gray gradient circles
  • pixelated monochrome art
  • circular shapes dark line
  • monochrome pixel art circles

Objects

  • two circular shapes
  • dark curved line

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome
  • low-resolution

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • two circular shapes
  • dark curved line
  • gradient background
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • no text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:35 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070814091724752548697
Archive entry
20070814091724752548697.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070814091724752548697.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070814091724752548697.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016