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Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner.

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Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner.

Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Composition

  • central star
  • text border
  • small heart corner

Dense Caption

Circular icon with grayscale pixelated border containing partially legible text. Central black five-pointed star. Top-left corner has small pink heart. Text includes 'BANANA' at top, 'FRANKS' at bottom, and other fragmented words. Pixelation creates low-resolution appearance. No visible motion or animation. Background is white. Text fragments appear to be in a stylized font. Icon is static with no additional elements beyond described features.

Description

  • Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • black star grayscale icon
  • pink heart text border
  • 'BANANA' 'FRANKS' pixelated
  • circular icon star heart text

Objects

  • star
  • heart

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected

Subjects

  • star
  • heart

Uncertain Text

  • BANANA
  • FRANKS

Visible Text

  • BANANA
  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • black star
  • grayscale border
  • pink heart
  • 'BANANA' text
  • 'FRANKS' text
  • pixelated text
  • white background
  • five-pointed star
  • circular shape
  • low-resolution pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810071439041568677705
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7b2a722e1a3e9223c682d50c2ea4187ec339851252fed77e2c6ec957d0b8297e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
7b2a722e1a3e9223
SHA-256
7b2a722e1a3e9223c682d50c2ea4187ec339851252fed77e2c6ec957d0b8297e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:10 UTC
Run
1069
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079386

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,155 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 753

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circular (style, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)
  • star (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • central star
  • text border
  • small heart corner

Dense Caption

Circular icon with grayscale pixelated border containing partially legible text. Central black five-pointed star. Top-left corner has small pink heart. Text includes 'BANANA' at top, 'FRANKS' at bottom, and other fragmented words. Pixelation creates low-resolution appearance. No visible motion or animation. Background is white. Text fragments appear to be in a stylized font. Icon is static with no additional elements beyond described features.

Description

  • Circular grayscale icon with a central black star surrounded by pixelated text and a small pink heart in the top-left corner.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • black star grayscale icon
  • pink heart text border
  • 'BANANA' 'FRANKS' pixelated
  • circular icon star heart text

Objects

  • star
  • heart
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • circular

Subjects

  • star
  • heart
  • text

Uncertain Text

  • BANANA
  • FRANKS

Visible Text

  • BANANA
  • FRANKS

Wordwall

  • black star
  • grayscale border
  • pink heart
  • 'BANANA' text
  • 'FRANKS' text
  • pixelated text
  • white background
  • five-pointed star
  • circular shape
  • low-resolution pixelation
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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
200810071439041568677705
Archive entry
200810071439041568677705.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810071439041568677705.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810071439041568677705.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016