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A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black background.

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A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black background.

A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central swirl
  • color banding around perimeter

Dense Caption

Circular-shaped static image composed of distinct pixels. Outer ring displays horizontal color bands: top section transitions from dark green to bright green, right side shifts from green to yellow, bottom edge moves from yellow through orange to deep red, left side flows from red back toward green. Inner area features a swirling pattern with cyan and blue tones dominating the upper-left quadrant, transitioning into darker shades of teal and black across the lower-right. All elements set against solid black background. No visible text or recognizable subjects present.

Description

  • A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712081334042127798503

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular pixelated icon
  • swirling gradient colors
  • green yellow blue red background
  • pixel art swirl pattern

Wordwall

  • circular shape
  • pixelated rendering
  • swirling gradient
  • green-yellow transition
  • blue-cyan swirl
  • red-orange bottom edge
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712081334042127798503
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4de8b634f067a97a635faf0adc8cd360275da5a5ad99be70273d552a647ada16.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
4de8b634f067a97a
SHA-256
4de8b634f067a97a635faf0adc8cd360275da5a5ad99be70273d552a647ada16
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
0.065458

OpenAI category scores

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A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,210 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 646

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • gradients (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • swirling patterns (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • cyan
  • blue
  • teal
  • orange
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central swirl
  • color banding around perimeter

Dense Caption

Circular-shaped static image composed of distinct pixels. Outer ring displays horizontal color bands: top section transitions from dark green to bright green, right side shifts from green to yellow, bottom edge moves from yellow through orange to deep red, left side flows from red back toward green. Inner area features a swirling pattern with cyan and blue tones dominating the upper-left quadrant, transitioning into darker shades of teal and black across the lower-right. All elements set against solid black background. No visible text or recognizable subjects present.

Description

  • A circular pixelated icon with a swirling gradient of green, yellow, blue, and red hues against a black 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712081334042127798503

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular pixelated icon
  • swirling gradient colors
  • green yellow blue red background
  • pixel art swirl pattern

Style

  • pixel art
  • gradients
  • swirling patterns

Wordwall

  • circular shape
  • pixelated rendering
  • swirling gradient
  • green-yellow transition
  • blue-cyan swirl
  • red-orange bottom edge
  • 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
200712081334042127798503
Archive entry
200712081334042127798503.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712081334042127798503.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712081334042127798503.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016