Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.

Permanent icon record

Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.

Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • non-representational
  • no focal point
  • uniform pixel density variation

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixels form abstract patterns of vertical and horizontal lines; some areas show dense blocky textures while others have smoother gradients. No recognizable objects, figures, symbols, or text are present in the visual field. The image consists entirely of monochrome tonal variations without discernible shapes or forms. Pixel density varies across the frame with no clear focal point or compositional structure.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811231757051063120039

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art
  • abstract monochrome lines
  • pixelated tonal gradients
  • blocky texture patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be heavily compressed or low-resolution

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

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • vertical lines
  • horizontal lines
  • tonal gradients
  • blocky textures

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811231757051063120039
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/855f47c6434c5cbff6e66bbcf68d13fa9913953a32f7737316e649edcccccbc7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
855f47c6434c5cbf
SHA-256
855f47c6434c5cbff6e66bbcf68d13fa9913953a32f7737316e649edcccccbc7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
1121
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086923

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.913077onnx/unsafe0.086923onnx/nsfw0.051958onnx/nsfl0.034965
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,915 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ambiguous (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • non-representational
  • no focal point
  • uniform pixel density variation

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixels form abstract patterns of vertical and horizontal lines; some areas show dense blocky textures while others have smoother gradients. No recognizable objects, figures, symbols, or text are present in the visual field. The image consists entirely of monochrome tonal variations without discernible shapes or forms. Pixel density varies across the frame with no clear focal point or compositional structure.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.

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

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200811231757051063120039

Mood

  • neutral
  • ambiguous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art
  • abstract monochrome lines
  • pixelated tonal gradients
  • blocky texture patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be heavily compressed or low-resolution

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
  • abstract
  • monochrome

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • vertical lines
  • horizontal lines
  • tonal gradients
  • blocky textures
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "855f47c6434c5cbff6e66bbcf68d13fa9913953a32f7737316e649edcccccbc7",
  "description": "Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.",
  "denseCaption": "Grayscale pixels form abstract patterns of vertical and horizontal lines; some areas show dense blocky textures while others have smoother gradients. No recognizable objects, figures, symbols, or text are present in the visual field. The image consists entirely of monochrome tonal variations without discernible shapes or forms. Pixel density varies across the frame with no clear focal point or compositional structure.",
  "wordwall": [
    "grayscale",
    "pixelated",
    "vertical lines",
    "horizontal lines",
    "tonal gradients",
    "blocky textures"
  ],
  "visibleText": [],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "white",
    "gray"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "abstract",
    "monochrome"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "non-representational",
    "no focal point",
    "uniform pixel density variation"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "neutral",
    "ambiguous"
  ],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [
    "image appears to be heavily compressed or low-resolution"
  ],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [
    "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
    "200811231757051063120039"
  ],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "grayscale pixel art",
    "abstract monochrome lines",
    "pixelated tonal gradients",
    "blocky texture patterns"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "abstract",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: abstract"
    },
    {
      "tag": "monochrome",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: monochrome"
    },
    {
      "tag": "neutral",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: neutral"
    },
    {
      "tag": "ambiguous",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: ambiguous"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    },
    {
      "tag": "gray",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: gray"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "855f47c6434c5cbff6e66bbcf68d13fa9913953a32f7737316e649edcccccbc7",
        "description": "Black-and-white pixelated image showing vertical and horizontal lines with varying grayscale tones, no distinct subjects or text visible.",
        "denseCaption": "Grayscale pixels form abstract patterns of vertical and horizontal lines; some areas show dense blocky textures while others have smoother gradients. No recognizable objects, figures, symbols, or text are present in the visual field. The image consists entirely of monochrome tonal variations without discernible shapes or forms. Pixel density varies across the frame with no clear focal point or compositional structure.",
        "wordwall": [
          "grayscale",
          "pixelated",
          "vertical lines",
          "horizontal lines",
          "tonal gradients",
          "blocky textures"
        ],
        "visibleText": [],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "white",
          "gray"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "abstract",
          "monochrome"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "non-representational",
          "no focal point",
          "uniform pixel density variation"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "neutral",
          "ambiguous"
        ],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [
          "image appears to be heavily compressed or low-resolution"
        ],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [
          "franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016",
          "200811231757051063120039"
        ],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "grayscale pixel art",
          "abstract monochrome lines",
          "pixelated tonal gradients",
          "blocky texture patterns"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
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
200811231757051063120039
Archive entry
200811231757051063120039.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811231757051063120039.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811231757051063120039.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016