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Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side.

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Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side.

Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • face centered
  • musical notes left side
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a stylized face with large black oval eyes and a small black mouth. The background consists of a rainbow gradient transitioning from green on the left through blue, yellow, orange, and pink to purple on the right. Two black musical notes are positioned on the left side of the face. The top portion of the image has a dark gray and black gradient. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and color blending.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20090714122138122387260

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient face icon
  • musical notes pixel art
  • low-resolution rainbow face
  • stylized face with musical notes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient background
  • large black oval eyes
  • small black mouth
  • two black musical notes
  • green to purple color transition
  • pixelated low-resolution art
  • dark gray and black top gradient
  • visible dithering
  • color blending
  • stylized face

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090714122138122387260
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3b83d1b2a563fd017ab6d62d0fb30d0dbf864bfc32b2fb63e758043fe0765a48.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
3b83d1b2a563fd01
SHA-256
3b83d1b2a563fd017ab6d62d0fb30d0dbf864bfc32b2fb63e758043fe0765a48
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
0.066332

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,976 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 835

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • colorful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • musical notes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • rainbow gradient (style, 0.80)
  • stylized face (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange
  • pink
  • purple
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • face centered
  • musical notes left side
  • gradient background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a stylized face with large black oval eyes and a small black mouth. The background consists of a rainbow gradient transitioning from green on the left through blue, yellow, orange, and pink to purple on the right. Two black musical notes are positioned on the left side of the face. The top portion of the image has a dark gray and black gradient. The overall style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering and color blending.

Description

  • Pixelated static image shows a stylized face with large black eyes, a rainbow gradient background, and musical notes on the left side.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20090714122138122387260

Mood

  • playful
  • colorful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow gradient face icon
  • musical notes pixel art
  • low-resolution rainbow face
  • stylized face with musical notes

Objects

  • musical notes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • rainbow gradient

Subjects

  • stylized face

Wordwall

  • rainbow gradient background
  • large black oval eyes
  • small black mouth
  • two black musical notes
  • green to purple color transition
  • pixelated low-resolution art
  • dark gray and black top gradient
  • visible dithering
  • color blending
  • stylized face
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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
20090714122138122387260
Archive entry
20090714122138122387260.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090714122138122387260.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090714122138122387260.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016