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A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set against a black background.

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A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set against a black background.

A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set against a black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • guitar pick shape
  • text at top
  • signature below text
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a white guitar pick shape with a black border. At the top, the word 'PICK' is rendered in bold, blocky, pixelated capital letters. Below 'PICK', there is a stylized signature that appears to read 'Jack' in a cursive, pixelated font. The background of the icon is white, and the surrounding area outside the pick shape is black. The image is static with no visible animation. The icon's design is simple and pixelated, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • guitar pick icon
  • PICK text signature
  • white guitar pick black border
  • pixelated Jack signature

Visible Text

  • PICK
  • Jack

Wordwall

  • guitar pick shape
  • white background
  • black border
  • PICK text
  • stylized signature
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090117130759110155137
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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GIF
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48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
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SHA-256
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A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set against a black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,512 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 658

Review tags

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  • signature (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black

Composition

  • guitar pick shape
  • text at top
  • signature below text
  • black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a white guitar pick shape with a black border. At the top, the word 'PICK' is rendered in bold, blocky, pixelated capital letters. Below 'PICK', there is a stylized signature that appears to read 'Jack' in a cursive, pixelated font. The background of the icon is white, and the surrounding area outside the pick shape is black. The image is static with no visible animation. The icon's design is simple and pixelated, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A white guitar pick-shaped icon with 'PICK' text at the top and a stylized signature below, set 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • PICK text signature
  • white guitar pick black border
  • pixelated Jack signature

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • cursive

Subjects

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  • signature

Visible Text

  • PICK
  • Jack

Wordwall

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  • white background
  • black border
  • PICK text
  • stylized signature
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • static image
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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
20090117130759110155137
Archive entry
20090117130759110155137.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#20090117130759110155137.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090117130759110155137.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016