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A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones.

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A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones.

A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • grid layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform panel size

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x3 grid layout with nine distinct square panels. Each panel contains low-resolution pixel art against a solid dark blue background. Top-left panel shows horizontal lines resembling simplified waves or stripes on white. Top-middle has an abstract curved shape on dark blue. Top-right features a stylized figure in a rectangular frame, possibly seated. Middle-left displays a small rounded form on dark blue. Center panel contains horizontal lines similar to top-left but with different spacing. Middle-right shows another small rounded form on dark blue. Bottom-left presents a larger framed figure with visible head and body details. Bottom-middle has an abstract curved shape on dark blue. Bottom-right features horizontal lines like the center panel but with distinct pixel arrangement. All icons use white, light blue, and dark blue color palette.

Description

  • A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art grid blue background
  • stylized figures horizontal lines
  • framed figure low resolution
  • blue white light blue pixel icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all frames identical

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • framed figure (bottom-left)
  • horizontal line patterns (top-left, center, bottom-right)

Wordwall

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • nine square panels
  • dark blue background
  • white and light blue pixels
  • horizontal line patterns
  • abstract curved shapes
  • framed stylized figures
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071103135906526151448
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/818afd513080173388d2bffd02c0dd98d654f393cdc50e35fb708be0a08e7e84.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
818afd5130801733
SHA-256
818afd513080173388d2bffd02c0dd98d654f393cdc50e35fb708be0a08e7e84
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070398

OpenAI category scores

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A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,169 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 793

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • framed figure (object, 0.80)
  • horizontal stripes (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • horizontal lines (subject, 0.80)
  • stylized figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • grid layout
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • uniform panel size

Dense Caption

The image displays a 3x3 grid layout with nine distinct square panels. Each panel contains low-resolution pixel art against a solid dark blue background. Top-left panel shows horizontal lines resembling simplified waves or stripes on white. Top-middle has an abstract curved shape on dark blue. Top-right features a stylized figure in a rectangular frame, possibly seated. Middle-left displays a small rounded form on dark blue. Center panel contains horizontal lines similar to top-left but with different spacing. Middle-right shows another small rounded form on dark blue. Bottom-left presents a larger framed figure with visible head and body details. Bottom-middle has an abstract curved shape on dark blue. Bottom-right features horizontal lines like the center panel but with distinct pixel arrangement. All icons use white, light blue, and dark blue color palette.

Description

  • A grid of nine pixelated icons on a blue background, featuring abstract shapes and stylized figures in white and light blue tones.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • 2007-2016
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art grid blue background
  • stylized figures horizontal lines
  • framed figure low resolution
  • blue white light blue pixel icons

Objects

  • framed figure
  • horizontal stripes

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all frames identical

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • abstract shapes
  • stylized figures
  • horizontal lines

Visually Supported Entities

  • framed figure (bottom-left)
  • horizontal line patterns (top-left, center, bottom-right)

Wordwall

  • 3x3 grid layout
  • nine square panels
  • dark blue background
  • white and light blue pixels
  • horizontal line patterns
  • abstract curved shapes
  • framed stylized figures
  • low-resolution pixel art
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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
20071103135906526151448
Archive entry
20071103135906526151448.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071103135906526151448.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071103135906526151448.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016