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A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark background.

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A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark background.

A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central shape
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated grayscale image with a central bright white rounded shape that has a small dark rectangular detail near its top edge. The shape has a slightly irregular left side and a smooth right side. The background is solid black with subtle gray pixelation around the central shape. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout, showing no text, clothing, or distinct objects beyond the central shape and background.

Description

  • A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • bright white shape dark background
  • small dark detail central shape
  • low resolution grayscale icon

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • central bright shape
  • small dark detail
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • irregular left edge
  • smooth right edge

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730235742168810281
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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/3c/3cc0c9ef70f08d4998401d08a1c49ea8cb802c7360fa2dc58f29328acc33ecc6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
3cc0c9ef70f08d49
SHA-256
3cc0c9ef70f08d4998401d08a1c49ea8cb802c7360fa2dc58f29328acc33ecc6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076666

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,599 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • central shape
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, pixelated grayscale image with a central bright white rounded shape that has a small dark rectangular detail near its top edge. The shape has a slightly irregular left side and a smooth right side. The background is solid black with subtle gray pixelation around the central shape. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout, showing no text, clothing, or distinct objects beyond the central shape and background.

Description

  • A pixelated grayscale icon shows a bright, rounded shape with a small dark detail near the top against a dark 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixelated icon
  • bright white shape dark background
  • small dark detail central shape
  • low resolution grayscale icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • central bright shape
  • small dark detail
  • black background
  • low resolution
  • irregular left edge
  • smooth right edge
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:53 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)
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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
20070730235742168810281
Archive entry
20070730235742168810281.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730235742168810281.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730235742168810281.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016