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Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar.

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Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar.

Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central subject
  • horizontal text bar

Dense Caption

Circular icon features a golden outer ring with inner gold accents. Center shows a stylized gray skull with white highlights on the eye sockets and teeth. A solid black horizontal bar spans the middle of the icon, overlaid with white pixelated text reading "Best". The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201104140435001299106413

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best skull icon
  • buddy icon best
  • pixel art skull text
  • golden border skull icon

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • Best

Wordwall

  • golden border
  • gray skull background
  • white pixelated text
  • black horizontal bar

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201104140435001299106413
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/851bbe8a5ebff935f3a15dde66c79b92cd1239cae33ec7676bb248242588632e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
851bbe8a5ebff935
SHA-256
851bbe8a5ebff935f3a15dde66c79b92cd1239cae33ec7676bb248242588632e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074523

OpenAI category scores

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Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:47 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,604 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 596

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • edgy (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gold
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central subject
  • horizontal text bar

Dense Caption

Circular icon features a golden outer ring with inner gold accents. Center shows a stylized gray skull with white highlights on the eye sockets and teeth. A solid black horizontal bar spans the middle of the icon, overlaid with white pixelated text reading "Best". The image has low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Circular icon with golden border and gray skull background, displaying text "Best" in white pixelated font on black bar.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201104140435001299106413

Mood

  • edgy
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • best skull icon
  • buddy icon best
  • pixel art skull text
  • golden border skull icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • buddy icon
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • skull

Visible Text

  • Best

Wordwall

  • golden border
  • gray skull background
  • white pixelated text
  • black horizontal bar
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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
201104140435001299106413
Archive entry
201104140435001299106413.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201104140435001299106413.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201104140435001299106413.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016