Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.

Permanent icon record

Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.

Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.

Composition

  • split background
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image contains a pixelated circular headdress with alternating light and dark segments surrounding a central figure. The figure has a dark face with visible eyes and mouth, and a gray rectangular shape below the face. The background is split: the top-left section is dark blue, while the rest is bright orange. Text elements include 'calvin is illinimania' in black pixelated font on the orange background, 'chief illiniwek' in black pixelated font on the orange background, and 'oshee wow wow' in black pixelated font on the orange background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070818125112564996653
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • calvin is illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow wow
  • pixelated headdress text orange background
  • blocky low-resolution text image
  • illiniwek calvin oshee wow
  • headdress text orange dark blue background
  • calvin illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow
  • illiniwek oshee wow text
  • calvin is illinimania oshee wow

Visible Text

  • calvin is illinimania
  • chief illiniwek
  • oshee wow wow

Wordwall

  • pixelated headdress
  • dark blue background section
  • bright orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'calvin is illinimania' text
  • 'chief illiniwek' text
  • 'oshee wow wow' text
  • blocky low-resolution style

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070818125112564996653
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/431d34134670057ccba8d6dbe94a5c18b5517939202d98ec1f8af2e09c12c8a1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
431d34134670057c
SHA-256
431d34134670057ccba8d6dbe94a5c18b5517939202d98ec1f8af2e09c12c8a1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090968

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.934845onnx/unsafe0.090968onnx/nsfw0.056217onnx/nsfl0.034751
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,545 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 800

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright orange (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • headdress (object, 0.80)
  • text elements (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • figure with headdress (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.

Colors

  • dark blue
  • bright orange
  • black
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • split background
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image contains a pixelated circular headdress with alternating light and dark segments surrounding a central figure. The figure has a dark face with visible eyes and mouth, and a gray rectangular shape below the face. The background is split: the top-left section is dark blue, while the rest is bright orange. Text elements include 'calvin is illinimania' in black pixelated font on the orange background, 'chief illiniwek' in black pixelated font on the orange background, and 'oshee wow wow' in black pixelated font on the orange background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070818125112564996653
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • calvin is illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow wow
  • pixelated headdress text orange background
  • blocky low-resolution text image
  • illiniwek calvin oshee wow
  • headdress text orange dark blue background
  • calvin illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow
  • illiniwek oshee wow text
  • calvin is illinimania oshee wow

Objects

  • headdress
  • text elements

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure with headdress

Visible Text

  • calvin is illinimania
  • chief illiniwek
  • oshee wow wow

Wordwall

  • pixelated headdress
  • dark blue background section
  • bright orange background
  • black pixelated text
  • 'calvin is illinimania' text
  • 'chief illiniwek' text
  • 'oshee wow wow' text
  • blocky low-resolution style
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "431d34134670057ccba8d6dbe94a5c18b5517939202d98ec1f8af2e09c12c8a1",
  "description": "Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.",
  "denseCaption": "The image contains a pixelated circular headdress with alternating light and dark segments surrounding a central figure. The figure has a dark face with visible eyes and mouth, and a gray rectangular shape below the face. The background is split: the top-left section is dark blue, while the rest is bright orange. Text elements include \u0027calvin is illinimania\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background, \u0027chief illiniwek\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background, and \u0027oshee wow wow\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible animation changes.",
  "wordwall": [
    "pixelated headdress",
    "dark blue background section",
    "bright orange background",
    "black pixelated text",
    "\u0027calvin is illinimania\u0027 text",
    "\u0027chief illiniwek\u0027 text",
    "\u0027oshee wow wow\u0027 text",
    "blocky low-resolution style"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "calvin is illinimania",
    "chief illiniwek",
    "oshee wow wow"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "figure with headdress"
  ],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [
    "headdress",
    "text elements"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "dark blue",
    "bright orange",
    "black",
    "light gray",
    "white"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "blocky",
    "low-resolution"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "split background",
    "text overlays"
  ],
  "mood": [],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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 topic-coverage: holidays",
    "provenance topic-coverage: humor",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "2007-2016",
    "franksicons",
    "20070818125112564996653",
    "20070818125112564996653",
    "Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "calvin is illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow wow",
    "pixelated headdress text orange background",
    "blocky low-resolution text image",
    "illiniwek calvin oshee wow",
    "headdress text orange dark blue background",
    "calvin illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow",
    "illiniwek oshee wow text",
    "calvin is illinimania oshee wow"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "figure with headdress",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: figure with headdress"
    },
    {
      "tag": "headdress",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: headdress"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text elements",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text elements"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blocky",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blocky"
    },
    {
      "tag": "low resolution",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: low-resolution"
    },
    {
      "tag": "dark blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: dark blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "bright orange",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: bright orange"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "light gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: light gray"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "431d34134670057ccba8d6dbe94a5c18b5517939202d98ec1f8af2e09c12c8a1",
        "description": "Pixelated image of a figure in a headdress with text overlays on orange and dark backgrounds.",
        "denseCaption": "The image contains a pixelated circular headdress with alternating light and dark segments surrounding a central figure. The figure has a dark face with visible eyes and mouth, and a gray rectangular shape below the face. The background is split: the top-left section is dark blue, while the rest is bright orange. Text elements include \u0027calvin is illinimania\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background, \u0027chief illiniwek\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background, and \u0027oshee wow wow\u0027 in black pixelated font on the orange background. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics. The image has no visible animation changes.",
        "wordwall": [
          "pixelated headdress",
          "dark blue background section",
          "bright orange background",
          "black pixelated text",
          "\u0027calvin is illinimania\u0027 text",
          "\u0027chief illiniwek\u0027 text",
          "\u0027oshee wow wow\u0027 text",
          "blocky low-resolution style"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "calvin is illinimania",
          "chief illiniwek",
          "oshee wow wow"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "figure with headdress"
        ],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [
          "headdress",
          "text elements"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "dark blue",
          "bright orange",
          "black",
          "light gray",
          "white"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "blocky",
          "low-resolution"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "split background",
          "text overlays"
        ],
        "mood": [],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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 topic-coverage: holidays",
          "provenance topic-coverage: humor",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "2007-2016",
          "franksicons",
          "20070818125112564996653",
          "20070818125112564996653",
          "Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with no motion elements.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "calvin is illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow wow",
          "pixelated headdress text orange background",
          "blocky low-resolution text image",
          "illiniwek calvin oshee wow",
          "headdress text orange dark blue background",
          "calvin illinimania chief illiniwek oshee wow",
          "illiniwek oshee wow text",
          "calvin is illinimania oshee wow"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:05 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 (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070818125112564996653
Archive entry
20070818125112564996653.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070818125112564996653.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070818125112564996653.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016