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Black background with scattered white dots and small circular shapes, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Black background with scattered white dots and small circular shapes, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • sparse distribution
  • bottom-right rectangle
  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background filled with numerous white pixelated dots of varying sizes. Multiple small white circular shapes resembling eyes or simple faces are distributed across the black field. A solid light gray rectangular block occupies the lower right portion of the image. The overall composition is sparse and minimalist, using only black, white, and light gray colors.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white dots and small circular shapes, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20080731190355457289761

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black white gray dots circles rectangle
  • pixel art dot pattern
  • sparse pixel composition
  • gray rectangle black background

Objects

  • rectangle

Subjects

  • rectangle

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dots
  • small circles
  • gray rectangle
  • sparse composition
  • pixelated shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080731190355457289761
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
947 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/540561e8696121aa01e460dc11f9bc59c8073724c106d4c492757ff006fa09e2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
540561e8696121aa
SHA-256
540561e8696121aa01e460dc11f9bc59c8073724c106d4c492757ff006fa09e2
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000783

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:25 UTC
Run
1037
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Black background with scattered white dots and small circular shapes, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,828 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 603

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • light gray

Composition

  • sparse distribution
  • bottom-right rectangle
  • scattered elements

Dense Caption

Black background filled with numerous white pixelated dots of varying sizes. Multiple small white circular shapes resembling eyes or simple faces are distributed across the black field. A solid light gray rectangular block occupies the lower right portion of the image. The overall composition is sparse and minimalist, using only black, white, and light gray colors.

Description

  • Black background with scattered white dots and small circular shapes, one gray rectangle in bottom-right corner.

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
  • 20080731190355457289761

Mood

  • calm
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art dot pattern
  • sparse pixel composition
  • gray rectangle black background

Objects

  • dots
  • circles
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • dots
  • circles
  • rectangle

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white dots
  • small circles
  • gray rectangle
  • sparse composition
  • pixelated shapes
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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
20080731190355457289761
Archive entry
20080731190355457289761.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#20080731190355457289761.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080731190355457289761.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016