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Animated icon with orange sphere, green and pink rings, blue ring, and text overlays changing across frames.

Animated icon with orange sphere, green and pink rings, blue ring, and text overlays changing across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes
  • pink ring movement

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across frames: 'SimonM44' → 'TT' → 'Message:' → 'I can help! have idea' (repeated), with pink ring movement.

Composition

  • central sphere
  • orbital rings
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Six frames show an animated icon with a central orange sphere featuring a brown and white pattern. Green, pink, and blue rings orbit the sphere. Text overlays change: first row shows 'SimonM44', 'TT', 'Message:'; second row shows 'I can help! have idea'. The pink ring's position shifts between frames, and the sphere's internal pattern varies slightly. All frames share the same background and composition.

Description

  • Animated icon with orange sphere, green and pink rings, blue ring, and text overlays changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201204090553201107522456

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange sphere orbital rings text overlays
  • SimonM44 TT Message: I can help
  • animated pink ring movement
  • buddy icon text changes
  • pixelated cartoon animation
  • text overlays orange sphere
  • TT Message: I can help
  • orange sphere pink ring blue ring

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

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

Visible Text

  • SimonM44
  • TT
  • Message:
  • I can help! have idea

Wordwall

  • orange sphere
  • green rings
  • pink rings
  • blue ring
  • text overlays
  • frame 1: SimonM44
  • frame 2: TT
  • frame 3: Message:
  • frame 4: I can help! have idea
  • frame 5: I can help! have idea
  • frame 6: I can help! have idea
  • pink ring movement
  • sphere pattern variation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201204090553201107522456
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3de858b71f3e0ac74a78a92cc3bbb49f62025cfc8dc43fb930ce7207cdc91243.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
3de858b71f3e0ac7
SHA-256
3de858b71f3e0ac74a78a92cc3bbb49f62025cfc8dc43fb930ce7207cdc91243
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093528

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.936149onnx/unsafe0.093528onnx/nsfw0.061055onnx/nsfl0.032473
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon with orange sphere, green and pink rings, blue ring, and text overlays changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:09 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,109 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,164, response 940

Review tags

  • pink ring movement (action, 0.80)
  • text overlay changes (action, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • helpful (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • orange sphere (subject, 0.80)
  • orbital rings (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text overlay changes
  • pink ring movement

Animation

  • text changes
  • pink ring movement

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change across frames: 'SimonM44' → 'TT' → 'Message:' → 'I can help! have idea' (repeated), with pink ring movement.

Colors

  • orange
  • green
  • pink
  • blue
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central sphere
  • orbital rings
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Six frames show an animated icon with a central orange sphere featuring a brown and white pattern. Green, pink, and blue rings orbit the sphere. Text overlays change: first row shows 'SimonM44', 'TT', 'Message:'; second row shows 'I can help! have idea'. The pink ring's position shifts between frames, and the sphere's internal pattern varies slightly. All frames share the same background and composition.

Description

  • Animated icon with orange sphere, green and pink rings, blue ring, and text overlays changing across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201204090553201107522456

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • helpful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange sphere orbital rings text overlays
  • SimonM44 TT Message: I can help
  • animated pink ring movement
  • buddy icon text changes
  • pixelated cartoon animation
  • text overlays orange sphere
  • TT Message: I can help
  • orange sphere pink ring blue ring

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping detected

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish
  • animated

Subjects

  • orange sphere
  • orbital rings

Visible Text

  • SimonM44
  • TT
  • Message:
  • I can help! have idea

Wordwall

  • orange sphere
  • green rings
  • pink rings
  • blue ring
  • text overlays
  • frame 1: SimonM44
  • frame 2: TT
  • frame 3: Message:
  • frame 4: I can help! have idea
  • frame 5: I can help! have idea
  • frame 6: I can help! have idea
  • pink ring movement
  • sphere pattern variation
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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
201204090553201107522456
Archive entry
201204090553201107522456.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201204090553201107522456.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201204090553201107522456.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016