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Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain background.

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Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain background.

Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central dark shape with surrounding lighter outlines
  • asymmetrical layout
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a static 32x32 pixel icon composed of black and white pixels. It features an irregular central dark shape surrounded by lighter gray outlines that form interconnected curved lines and loops. The left side contains two distinct rounded dark sections connected to the main body, while the right side has a smaller detached dark section with trailing lines extending downward. Pixelation is visible throughout due to low resolution.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain 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
  • 20080721181854337502444

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated black white abstract icon
  • low resolution flowing shapes
  • interconnected curves 32x32 pixels
  • central dark mass with gray outlines

Uncertain Text

  • partially legible character on right side

Wordwall

  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • abstract shapes
  • flowing curves
  • interconnected loops
  • central dark mass
  • light gray outlines
  • low-resolution
  • 32x32 pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080721181854337502444
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a99be60184d07a66cd7ea358f90e7854dfbcb55b9a2104da2e2a0b088072bb7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
3a99be60184d07a6
SHA-256
3a99be60184d07a66cd7ea358f90e7854dfbcb55b9a2104da2e2a0b088072bb7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081165

OpenAI category scores

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Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,916 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract forms (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central dark shape with surrounding lighter outlines
  • asymmetrical layout
  • no background elements

Dense Caption

The image is a static 32x32 pixel icon composed of black and white pixels. It features an irregular central dark shape surrounded by lighter gray outlines that form interconnected curved lines and loops. The left side contains two distinct rounded dark sections connected to the main body, while the right side has a smaller detached dark section with trailing lines extending downward. Pixelation is visible throughout due to low resolution.

Description

  • Black and white pixelated icon with abstract flowing shapes resembling a stylized letter or symbol, set against a plain 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
  • 20080721181854337502444

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated black white abstract icon
  • low resolution flowing shapes
  • interconnected curves 32x32 pixels
  • central dark mass with gray outlines

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • abstract forms

Uncertain Text

  • partially legible character on right side

Wordwall

  • black and white
  • pixelated
  • abstract shapes
  • flowing curves
  • interconnected loops
  • central dark mass
  • light gray outlines
  • low-resolution
  • 32x32 pixels
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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
20080721181854337502444
Archive entry
20080721181854337502444.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080721181854337502444.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080721181854337502444.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016