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Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines.

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Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines.

Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • central placement of shapes

Dense Caption

Left icon: dark blue spiral shape resembling a stylized 'R' or abstract swirl; right icon: bright purple heart-shaped outline with internal spirals; both have soft glow effects; background is solid black in both versions; pixelated rendering style; no visible text or additional elements beyond the main shapes.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907031443492138189429

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue spiral icon purple heart
  • glowing pixel art icons
  • black background abstract shapes
  • pixelated blue and purple icons

Subjects

  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • blue spiral
  • purple heart
  • glowing outlines
  • pixelated
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200907031443492138189429
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
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 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
4dcfddadafa634c7
SHA-256
4dcfddadafa634c7dcbb429cc5ee3367be399f3f4dd420768d10a71ff191dded
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086532

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,595 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,139, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright purple (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • glow effect (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract swirl (subject, 0.80)
  • heart shape (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • dark blue
  • bright purple
  • black

Composition

  • two side-by-side icons
  • central placement of shapes

Dense Caption

Left icon: dark blue spiral shape resembling a stylized 'R' or abstract swirl; right icon: bright purple heart-shaped outline with internal spirals; both have soft glow effects; background is solid black in both versions; pixelated rendering style; no visible text or additional elements beyond the main shapes.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated icons on black backgrounds, left blue and right purple with glowing outlines.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200907031443492138189429

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue spiral icon purple heart
  • glowing pixel art icons
  • black background abstract shapes
  • pixelated blue and purple icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • glow effect

Subjects

  • abstract swirl
  • heart shape

Wordwall

  • blue spiral
  • purple heart
  • glowing outlines
  • pixelated
  • black background
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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
200907031443492138189429
Archive entry
200907031443492138189429.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#200907031443492138189429.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200907031443492138189429.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016