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A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents.

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A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents.

A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • central swirl
  • background accents

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated circular image with a central swirling pattern composed of blue, white, and brown pixels. Surrounding the central swirl are additional pixelated elements in green and yellow tones. The background consists of blue pixels with scattered green and yellow accents. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics. No text or distinct objects are visible within the icon's composition.

Description

  • A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated circular icon
  • swirling blue white brown
  • blue background green yellow accents
  • retro digital low resolution
  • no text icon
  • buddy icon
  • aim icon
  • buddy-icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • circular
  • swirling pattern
  • blue background
  • green accents
  • yellow accents
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • blue white brown
  • no text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
19809
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:00 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b5a0725b82563271c5829535428432b64d00a4a5610c37e6489684011f9a65c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Archive ID
3b5a0725b8256327
SHA-256
3b5a0725b82563271c5829535428432b64d00a4a5610c37e6489684011f9a65c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.074321

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925679onnx/unsafe0.074321onnx/nsfw0.038250onnx/nsfl0.036071
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,850 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,033, response 662

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • green
  • yellow

Composition

  • circular
  • central swirl
  • background accents

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated circular image with a central swirling pattern composed of blue, white, and brown pixels. Surrounding the central swirl are additional pixelated elements in green and yellow tones. The background consists of blue pixels with scattered green and yellow accents. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance typical of early internet graphics. No text or distinct objects are visible within the icon's composition.

Description

  • A pixelated circular icon with swirling patterns in blue, white, and brown tones against a blue background with green and yellow accents.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated circular icon
  • swirling blue white brown
  • blue background green yellow accents
  • retro digital low resolution
  • no text icon
  • buddy icon
  • aim icon
  • buddy-icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • circular
  • swirling pattern
  • blue background
  • green accents
  • yellow accents
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • blue white brown
  • no text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 04:00 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
19809
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/19809.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111127022435id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/19809.gif