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White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels.

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White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels.

White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static arrangement of white pixelated shapes on black background.

Composition

  • central arrangement
  • scattered elements
  • faint arc

Dense Caption

White pixelated shapes on a black background include three distinct plus signs (one large, one medium, one small) and three star-like forms (one medium, one small, one tiny). Scattered white dots and small clusters of pixels appear below the main shapes, with additional dots forming a faint arc in the lower right. The shapes and dots maintain consistent white color and pixelated rendering across all visible frames.

Description

  • White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901022051002084059777

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixelated plus signs
  • star-like forms on black
  • scattered white dots
  • faint arc of pixels

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping observed

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

Wordwall

  • white pixelated shapes
  • black background
  • plus signs
  • star-like forms
  • scattered dots
  • small clusters
  • faint arc
  • consistent white color
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901022051002084059777
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
384 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/513626822d75795c7a1654bc2abd1fb9a003065f6b662f5e2016904259aa905e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
513626822d75795c
SHA-256
513626822d75795c7a1654bc2abd1fb9a003065f6b662f5e2016904259aa905e
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001181

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.147795

OpenAI category scores

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White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,655 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 765

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • plus signs (subject, 0.80)
  • star like forms (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; static arrangement of white pixelated shapes on black background.

Colors

  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central arrangement
  • scattered elements
  • faint arc

Dense Caption

White pixelated shapes on a black background include three distinct plus signs (one large, one medium, one small) and three star-like forms (one medium, one small, one tiny). Scattered white dots and small clusters of pixels appear below the main shapes, with additional dots forming a faint arc in the lower right. The shapes and dots maintain consistent white color and pixelated rendering across all visible frames.

Description

  • White pixelated shapes on a black background, including plus signs and star-like forms, with scattered dots and small clusters of pixels.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901022051002084059777

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixelated plus signs
  • star-like forms on black
  • scattered white dots
  • faint arc of pixels

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte or cropping observed

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • plus signs
  • star-like forms
  • dots

Wordwall

  • white pixelated shapes
  • black background
  • plus signs
  • star-like forms
  • scattered dots
  • small clusters
  • faint arc
  • consistent white color
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200901022051002084059777
Archive entry
200901022051002084059777.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901022051002084059777.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901022051002084059777.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016