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Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background.

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Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background.

Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • irregular shape
  • layered color blocks
  • top-left purple to bottom-right red gradient
  • solid black background
  • vertical dark line on left edge

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated abstract shape composed of distinct color blocks. From top to bottom, the visible colors transition through a gradient: purple in the upper-left corner, light blue, cyan, bright green, yellow, orange, and red. The shape has an irregular, flowing form with no discernible figures or text. The background is solid black. The pixelation is consistent across the entire image, with no visible motion or animation. The color blocks are arranged in a layered, overlapping manner, creating a smooth transition between hues. The left edge shows a dark, thin vertical line extending from the top-left corner. The right edge is partially cropped, with the shape extending beyond the visible frame. The overall composition is asymmetrical, with the green section occupying the central area.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200802271858231831004425

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated gradient abstract shape
  • purple cyan green yellow orange red gradient
  • black background pixel art
  • asymmetrical color block design

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

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

Style

  • gradient

Wordwall

  • purple
  • cyan
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • pixelated
  • gradient
  • abstract
  • black background
  • irregular shape
  • color blocks
  • layered
  • asymmetrical
  • no text
  • no figures
  • solid black background
  • top-left purple
  • bottom-right red
  • vertical dark line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802271858231831004425
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f9050e9db176c84ef9f0a495622cc8ee9257a287f86fd537b00710e5f861b6c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
7f9050e9db176c84
SHA-256
7f9050e9db176c84ef9f0a495622cc8ee9257a287f86fd537b00710e5f861b6c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
1091
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074618

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925382onnx/unsafe0.074618onnx/nsfw0.041380onnx/nsfl0.033238
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,135 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 952

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • cyan
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • irregular shape
  • layered color blocks
  • top-left purple to bottom-right red gradient
  • solid black background
  • vertical dark line on left edge

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated abstract shape composed of distinct color blocks. From top to bottom, the visible colors transition through a gradient: purple in the upper-left corner, light blue, cyan, bright green, yellow, orange, and red. The shape has an irregular, flowing form with no discernible figures or text. The background is solid black. The pixelation is consistent across the entire image, with no visible motion or animation. The color blocks are arranged in a layered, overlapping manner, creating a smooth transition between hues. The left edge shows a dark, thin vertical line extending from the top-left corner. The right edge is partially cropped, with the shape extending beyond the visible frame. The overall composition is asymmetrical, with the green section occupying the central area.

Description

  • Pixelated abstract shape with gradient colors transitioning from purple to cyan, green, yellow, orange, and red against a black background.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200802271858231831004425

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated gradient abstract shape
  • purple cyan green yellow orange red gradient
  • black background pixel art
  • asymmetrical color block design

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • gradient

Wordwall

  • purple
  • cyan
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • pixelated
  • gradient
  • abstract
  • black background
  • irregular shape
  • color blocks
  • layered
  • asymmetrical
  • no text
  • no figures
  • solid black background
  • top-left purple
  • bottom-right red
  • vertical dark line
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:21 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200802271858231831004425
Archive entry
200802271858231831004425.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802271858231831004425.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802271858231831004425.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016