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A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light background.

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A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light background.

A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered arrow

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular shape with a thick, textured black border. Inside the border, on a light background, there is a solid black upward-pointing arrow. The arrow has a thick shaft and a triangular head. The border has a slightly irregular, pixelated appearance. The icon is displayed in a grid layout with other icons, including one with a downward arrow and one with text.

Description

  • A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901191522401607755059
  • 20090119152244645944597

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • upward arrow icon
  • circular black and white icon
  • textured border arrow
  • icon

Objects

  • circle

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence, but no motion is visible in this frame.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout icon

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

Subjects

  • arrow

Wordwall

  • upward arrow
  • circular border
  • black and white
  • textured border
  • solid arrow
  • light background
  • downward arrow icon
  • text icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901191522401607755059
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090119152244645944597
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4e/4e399b17d691782cc41c5027bccc6fa43de55a9d1d3a700937ee1965eb1dd913.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
4e399b17d691782c
SHA-256
4e399b17d691782cc41c5027bccc6fa43de55a9d1d3a700937ee1965eb1dd913
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.073759

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,936 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,154, response 737

Review tags

  • pointing upward (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circle (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • arrow (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pointing upward

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • circular
  • centered arrow

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular shape with a thick, textured black border. Inside the border, on a light background, there is a solid black upward-pointing arrow. The arrow has a thick shaft and a triangular head. The border has a slightly irregular, pixelated appearance. The icon is displayed in a grid layout with other icons, including one with a downward arrow and one with text.

Description

  • A black and white circular icon with a thick border contains a solid black upward-pointing arrow on a light 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901191522401607755059
  • 20090119152244645944597

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • upward arrow icon
  • circular black and white icon
  • textured border arrow
  • icon

Objects

  • circle

Preprocessing Notes

  • The image appears to be a static frame from an animated sequence, but no motion is visible in this frame.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: grid layout icon

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • arrow

Wordwall

  • upward arrow
  • circular border
  • black and white
  • textured border
  • solid arrow
  • light background
  • downward arrow icon
  • text icon
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Full source records (2)

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
200901191522401607755059
Archive entry
200901191522401607755059.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901191522401607755059.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901191522401607755059.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20090119152244645944597
Archive entry
20090119152244645944597.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090119152244645944597.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090119152244645944597.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016