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Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter.

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Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter.

Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Animation Summary

  • static icon with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central letter placement
  • text along top edge

Dense Caption

The icon features a circular red outer ring. Inside, a large central red letter 'A' is positioned over a gray background element resembling a gear or mechanical shape. Partial dark blue text fragments are visible along the top edge of the circle: 'O', 'S', 'T', 'O'. The image has low resolution with pixelated edges and color blending between red, gray, white, and dark blue hues. No motion is present; it is a static icon.

Description

  • Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710291634571262692622
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular border letter A mechanical shape
  • circular red border partial text O S T O
  • low-resolution pixelated red gray blue icon
  • mechanical shape central letter A

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects clarity of all elements

Visible Text

  • O
  • S
  • T

Wordwall

  • circular red border
  • large central red letter A
  • gray mechanical shape background
  • partial text fragments top edge
  • low-resolution pixels
  • red gray white dark blue colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710291634571262692622
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/52/525c221181c9598344f26b5b8862ee14b4b237f57ce373112471e029a48e4bf7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
525c221181c95983
SHA-256
525c221181c9598344f26b5b8862ee14b4b237f57ce373112471e029a48e4bf7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:32 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068946

OpenAI category scores

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Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:43 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,682 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,097, response 595

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stencil like text (style, 0.80)
  • letter a (subject, 0.80)
  • mechanical shape (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • static icon with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • red
  • gray
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central letter placement
  • text along top edge

Dense Caption

The icon features a circular red outer ring. Inside, a large central red letter 'A' is positioned over a gray background element resembling a gear or mechanical shape. Partial dark blue text fragments are visible along the top edge of the circle: 'O', 'S', 'T', 'O'. The image has low resolution with pixelated edges and color blending between red, gray, white, and dark blue hues. No motion is present; it is a static icon.

Description

  • Circular red border encloses a stylized red 'A' with gray accents and partial text fragments around the perimeter.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710291634571262692622
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circular border letter A mechanical shape
  • circular red border partial text O S T O
  • low-resolution pixelated red gray blue icon
  • mechanical shape central letter A

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation affects clarity of all elements

Style

  • pixelated
  • stencil-like text

Subjects

  • letter 'A'
  • mechanical shape

Visible Text

  • O
  • S
  • T

Wordwall

  • circular red border
  • large central red letter A
  • gray mechanical shape background
  • partial text fragments top edge
  • low-resolution pixels
  • red gray white dark blue colors
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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
200710291634571262692622
Archive entry
200710291634571262692622.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710291634571262692622.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710291634571262692622.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016