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Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring.

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Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring.

Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • four segmented sections

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular pixelated image with a thin blue ring forming the outer boundary. Inside the ring, the space is divided into four distinct color segments: top-left is yellow and green, top-right is yellow and blue, bottom-left is purple and blue, and bottom-right is blue and purple. The segments form a stylized, abstract shape with no visible text or recognizable figures. The background is white, and the overall style is low-resolution pixel art with a limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807221015071443863958

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular pixel art blue ring
  • abstract shape segmented colors
  • low-resolution blue green yellow purple
  • white background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

  • circular
  • pixelated
  • blue ring
  • yellow-green segment
  • yellow-blue segment
  • purple-blue segment
  • abstract shape
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807221015071443863958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7bee3c356e1a9fa627a85ca45c5a0fc9c153b8f722c65018fa9da34ac9703c7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
7bee3c356e1a9fa6
SHA-256
7bee3c356e1a9fa627a85ca45c5a0fc9c153b8f722c65018fa9da34ac9703c7b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
1074
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075703

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,335 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 791

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • circular (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shape (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • circular frame
  • four segmented sections

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular pixelated image with a thin blue ring forming the outer boundary. Inside the ring, the space is divided into four distinct color segments: top-left is yellow and green, top-right is yellow and blue, bottom-left is purple and blue, and bottom-right is blue and purple. The segments form a stylized, abstract shape with no visible text or recognizable figures. The background is white, and the overall style is low-resolution pixel art with a limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated circular icon with segmented blue, green, yellow, and purple sections forming a stylized shape inside a thin blue ring.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807221015071443863958

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular pixel art blue ring
  • abstract shape segmented colors
  • low-resolution blue green yellow purple
  • white background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • circular

Subjects

  • abstract shape

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • blue ring
  • yellow-green segment
  • yellow-blue segment
  • purple-blue segment
  • abstract shape
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • limited color palette
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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
200807221015071443863958
Archive entry
200807221015071443863958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807221015071443863958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807221015071443863958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016