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Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text.

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Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text.

Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes detected; static image with yellow circles on blue background.

Composition

  • scattered
  • various sizes
  • overlapping edges

Dense Caption

Solid blue background with multiple yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across the surface. The circles are uniformly colored yellow with no internal details or outlines. One circle near the bottom center has a small indentation on its upper right edge. The shapes are distributed without a clear pattern, with some circles overlapping the edges of the frame. The image has a pixelated appearance with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200810191651321816721986

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow circles blue background
  • pixelated yellow circles
  • indented circle blue background
  • scattered yellow circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • yellow circles
  • blue background
  • various sizes
  • pixelated
  • no text
  • indented circle
  • scattered
  • solid color
  • no outlines
  • overlapping edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810191651321816721986
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
686 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5f/5ff4f96777175f44d7f468c60e6247573ca785b17353d42466915feb8fd18c0a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
5ff4f96777175f44
SHA-256
5ff4f96777175f44d7f468c60e6247573ca785b17353d42466915feb8fd18c0a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:14 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082584

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.917416onnx/unsafe0.082584onnx/nsfw0.051208onnx/nsfl0.031375
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Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:51 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,930 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 667

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • flat (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • yellow circles (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes detected; static image with yellow circles on blue background.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • scattered
  • various sizes
  • overlapping edges

Dense Caption

Solid blue background with multiple yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across the surface. The circles are uniformly colored yellow with no internal details or outlines. One circle near the bottom center has a small indentation on its upper right edge. The shapes are distributed without a clear pattern, with some circles overlapping the edges of the frame. The image has a pixelated appearance with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Yellow circular shapes of varying sizes scattered across a solid blue background with no visible motion or text.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200810191651321816721986

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow circles blue background
  • pixelated yellow circles
  • indented circle blue background
  • scattered yellow circles

Objects

  • yellow circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist
  • flat

Subjects

  • yellow circles

Wordwall

  • yellow circles
  • blue background
  • various sizes
  • pixelated
  • no text
  • indented circle
  • scattered
  • solid color
  • no outlines
  • overlapping edges
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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
200810191651321816721986
Archive entry
200810191651321816721986.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810191651321816721986.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810191651321816721986.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016