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Black background with scattered white and blue circular dots of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

Black background with scattered white and blue circular dots of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered circles on black background
  • partial cropping of elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple solid-colored circles: large white circles (diameter approximately 2.5 units), medium blue circles (diameter approximately 1.5 units), and small gray circles (diameter approximately 0.75 units). Circles are distributed across the frame with no apparent pattern; some appear partially cropped at image edges. No text, symbols, or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white and blue circular dots of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

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
  • 200806121808551628579562

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white blue circles
  • scattered geometric circles
  • abstract circle pattern
  • partial cropping circles

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white circles
  • blue circles
  • gray circles
  • scattered arrangement
  • partial cropping

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806121808551628579562
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
33db636a9f14e171
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065952

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered white and blue circular dots of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 595

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circles (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered circles on black background
  • partial cropping of elements

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple solid-colored circles: large white circles (diameter approximately 2.5 units), medium blue circles (diameter approximately 1.5 units), and small gray circles (diameter approximately 0.75 units). Circles are distributed across the frame with no apparent pattern; some appear partially cropped at image edges. No text, symbols, or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white and blue circular dots of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

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
  • 200806121808551628579562

Mood

  • neutral
  • calming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background white blue circles
  • scattered geometric circles
  • abstract circle pattern
  • partial cropping circles

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • abstract
  • minimalist
  • geometric

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white circles
  • blue circles
  • gray circles
  • scattered arrangement
  • partial cropping
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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
200806121808551628579562
Archive entry
200806121808551628579562.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806121808551628579562.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806121808551628579562.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016