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Black background with scattered yellow and gold circles of varying sizes, some partially visible at edges.

Black background with scattered yellow and gold circles of varying sizes, some partially visible at edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • varied sizes
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple overlapping circular shapes in shades of yellow and gold. Circles vary in size from small to large; several are cropped by image boundaries. Two distinct half-circle segments appear: one bright yellow segment on the left side of a larger circle with a brownish-gold right segment, another similar pair showing inverted color distribution. All circles have soft edges without sharp outlines.

Description

  • Black background with scattered yellow and gold circles of varying sizes, some partially visible at edges.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2011092203480882816722

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow gold circles black background
  • scattered yellow circles abstract
  • gold and yellow circle pattern
  • black background geometric circles

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow circles
  • gold circles
  • varied sizes
  • partial visibility
  • soft edges
  • two half-circle segments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2011092203480882816722
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
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
88e9b679468362c9
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078552

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Black background with scattered yellow and gold circles of varying sizes, some partially visible at edges.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:51 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,769 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 597

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • circles (object, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • gold

Composition

  • scattered circles
  • varied sizes
  • partial cropping

Dense Caption

Black background contains multiple overlapping circular shapes in shades of yellow and gold. Circles vary in size from small to large; several are cropped by image boundaries. Two distinct half-circle segments appear: one bright yellow segment on the left side of a larger circle with a brownish-gold right segment, another similar pair showing inverted color distribution. All circles have soft edges without sharp outlines.

Description

  • Black background with scattered yellow and gold circles of varying sizes, some partially visible at edges.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2011092203480882816722

Mood

  • neutral
  • calming

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow gold circles black background
  • scattered yellow circles abstract
  • gold and yellow circle pattern
  • black background geometric circles

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • abstract
  • geometric
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • black background
  • yellow circles
  • gold circles
  • varied sizes
  • partial visibility
  • soft edges
  • two half-circle segments
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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
2011092203480882816722
Archive entry
2011092203480882816722.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#2011092203480882816722.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2011092203480882816722.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016