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Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes.

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Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes.

Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered
  • eye positioned right
  • background blurred

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. It displays three lines of text: "Bird" on the top line, "club" on the middle line, and "members" on the bottom line. The text is rendered in a bold, blocky font with black fill and orange outlines. The background consists of a blurred, abstract composition with a prominent large eye on the right side, featuring a black pupil and white sclera. Surrounding the eye are indistinct shapes in muted tones of gray, brown, and beige. The overall image quality is highly pixelated, with visible blockiness and low color depth.

Description

Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bird club members
  • orange text outline
  • blurred eye background
  • pixelated retro text

Objects

  • eye

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

Subjects

  • eye

Visible Text

  • Bird
  • club
  • members

Wordwall

  • text: Bird
  • text: club
  • text: members
  • text color: black
  • text outline: orange
  • background: blurred eye
  • background: abstract shapes
  • pixelation: high
  • font: blocky
  • style: retro

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201206091717201596686940
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
40b21c9c6a046699
SHA-256
40b21c9c6a046699a25202f5814d57c9d0b792d918b74495b0e9bb0d37d3811d
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076056

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Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:30 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,074 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,099, response 804

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • vague (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • eye (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • gray
  • brown
  • beige
  • white

Composition

  • text centered
  • eye positioned right
  • background blurred

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution, pixelated static icon. It displays three lines of text: "Bird" on the top line, "club" on the middle line, and "members" on the bottom line. The text is rendered in a bold, blocky font with black fill and orange outlines. The background consists of a blurred, abstract composition with a prominent large eye on the right side, featuring a black pupil and white sclera. Surrounding the eye are indistinct shapes in muted tones of gray, brown, and beige. The overall image quality is highly pixelated, with visible blockiness and low color depth.

Description

Pixelated image with orange-outlined black text reading "Bird club members" over a blurred background featuring a large eye and abstract shapes.

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

Mood

  • mysterious
  • vague

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bird club members
  • orange text outline
  • blurred eye background
  • pixelated retro text

Objects

  • eye
  • abstract shapes

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
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text
  • eye

Visible Text

  • Bird
  • club
  • members

Wordwall

  • text: Bird
  • text: club
  • text: members
  • text color: black
  • text outline: orange
  • background: blurred eye
  • background: abstract shapes
  • pixelation: high
  • font: blocky
  • style: retro
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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
201206091717201596686940
Archive entry
201206091717201596686940.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#201206091717201596686940.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201206091717201596686940.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016