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A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing text.

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A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing text.

A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • asymmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

The icon is split into two sections. On the left, against a solid black background, there is a pixelated crescent moon in shades of gray. The right section has a solid bright blue background with white pixelated text: 'WHY?' at the top and '= [ broken <3' at the bottom. All elements are static.

Description

  • A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing 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 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
  • 20080402143450622781723

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • crescent moon blue background
  • WHY? broken <3 text
  • pixelated moon icon
  • blue and black split image

Visible Text

  • WHY?
  • = [ broken <3

Wordwall

  • crescent moon
  • black background
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • WHY?
  • = [ broken <3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080402143450622781723
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
73fcfdd3c6312fc9
SHA-256
73fcfdd3c6312fc9c3d45bffa8b7d72a22c1f32ce0c0b856fd52f9fb9777733e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 25, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
1187
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000617

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July 23, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
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1039
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A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing text.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,332 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 602

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • confused (mood, 0.80)
  • sad (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • crescent moon (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • split left-right
  • asymmetrical text placement

Dense Caption

The icon is split into two sections. On the left, against a solid black background, there is a pixelated crescent moon in shades of gray. The right section has a solid bright blue background with white pixelated text: 'WHY?' at the top and '= [ broken <3' at the bottom. All elements are static.

Description

  • A static image with a black background on the left showing a pixelated crescent moon and blue background on the right containing 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 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
  • 20080402143450622781723

Mood

  • confused
  • sad

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • crescent moon blue background
  • WHY? broken <3 text
  • pixelated moon icon
  • blue and black split image

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • crescent moon

Visible Text

  • WHY?
  • = [ broken <3

Wordwall

  • crescent moon
  • black background
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • WHY?
  • = [ broken <3
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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
20080402143450622781723
Archive entry
20080402143450622781723.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#20080402143450622781723.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080402143450622781723.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016