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A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background.

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A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background.

A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • overlapping forms

Dense Caption

The image is a static grayscale composition. It shows a large curved white shape resembling a crescent moon or partial circle on the left side, overlapping a smaller solid black circular region in the upper center. Below this, there is another irregular black shape with rounded edges. The background transitions from dark gray at the top to lighter shades toward the bottom. Pixelation is visible throughout the image, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080524133308229351489
  • provenance era: 2007, 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim, buddy-icons, historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale crescent shape
  • pixelated abstract icon
  • black white gray composition
  • asymmetrical overlapping forms

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016, 2007-2016, franksicons, 20080524133308229351489
  • provenance era: 2007, 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim, buddy-icons, historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • crescent shape
  • black regions
  • white curved form
  • pixelated
  • gradient background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080524133308229351489
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69b04b33bb4b471c53b5db6327f01834c61430c28f4f3009ebc7b272d8c8056b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
69b04b33bb4b471c
SHA-256
69b04b33bb4b471c53b5db6327f01834c61430c28f4f3009ebc7b272d8c8056b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079263

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:50 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,699 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 709

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • overlapping forms

Dense Caption

The image is a static grayscale composition. It shows a large curved white shape resembling a crescent moon or partial circle on the left side, overlapping a smaller solid black circular region in the upper center. Below this, there is another irregular black shape with rounded edges. The background transitions from dark gray at the top to lighter shades toward the bottom. Pixelation is visible throughout the image, indicating low resolution.

Description

  • A grayscale icon featuring a stylized crescent shape with dark and light regions, set against a gradient background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080524133308229351489
  • provenance era: 2007, 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim, buddy-icons, historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale crescent shape
  • pixelated abstract icon
  • black white gray composition
  • asymmetrical overlapping forms

Preprocessing Notes

  • low resolution
  • pixelated rendering

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson: franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016, 2007-2016, franksicons, 20080524133308229351489
  • provenance era: 2007, 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim, buddy-icons, historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime, celebrities, games, holidays, humor

Style

  • minimalist
  • pixel art

Subjects

  • abstract shapes

Visually Supported Entities

  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • crescent shape
  • black regions
  • white curved form
  • pixelated
  • gradient background
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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
20080524133308229351489
Archive entry
20080524133308229351489.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080524133308229351489.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080524133308229351489.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016