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Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern.

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Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern.

Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Source terms

Composition

  • oval shape
  • symmetrical
  • central pattern

Dense Caption

Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background. Central area features abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern with gray and white accents. Pattern consists of interwoven, irregular shapes. Background transitions from red at top to blue at bottom. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. No visible text or distinct subjects. Composition is centered and symmetrical.

Description

  • Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • oval pixel art
  • red blue gradient
  • central abstract pattern
  • retro digital icon
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • low-resolution icon
  • black white gray pattern
  • pixelated abstract icon

Wordwall

  • oval shape
  • red and blue gradient
  • central pixelated pattern
  • black and white accents
  • gray accents
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809211554181739873458
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/73/7329cc85a2a3b0966b3fbdf9e284afee2b87c1a0f3487fc7220d6115511adeb9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
7329cc85a2a3b096
SHA-256
7329cc85a2a3b0966b3fbdf9e284afee2b87c1a0f3487fc7220d6115511adeb9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068803

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Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,180 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 625

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • oval shape
  • symmetrical
  • central pattern

Dense Caption

Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background. Central area features abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern with gray and white accents. Pattern consists of interwoven, irregular shapes. Background transitions from red at top to blue at bottom. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. No visible text or distinct subjects. Composition is centered and symmetrical.

Description

  • Oval-shaped icon with red and blue gradient background and central abstract black-and-white pixelated pattern.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • oval pixel art
  • red blue gradient
  • central abstract pattern
  • retro digital icon
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • low-resolution icon
  • black white gray pattern
  • pixelated abstract icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • abstract

Wordwall

  • oval shape
  • red and blue gradient
  • central pixelated pattern
  • black and white accents
  • gray accents
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical composition
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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
200809211554181739873458
Archive entry
200809211554181739873458.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809211554181739873458.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809211554181739873458.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016