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A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors.

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A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors.

A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • gradient transition

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular shape with a central bright white area that transitions into a soft gradient of warm orange and brown tones radiating outward. The outermost edges show a mix of darker brown and gray pixels. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with no distinct subjects, objects, or text visible. The overall composition is centered with a smooth color transition from light to warm hues.

Description

A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors.

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
  • 20090318173904222660670

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular white orange brown gradient
  • pixelated gradient icon
  • low-resolution circular icon
  • white center orange brown transition
  • no text circular gradient
  • warm tone pixelated icon
  • centered gradient circle
  • soft color transition icon

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

  • circular shape
  • bright white center
  • warm orange tones
  • brown gradient
  • pixelated appearance
  • soft color transition
  • low-resolution
  • no visible subjects
  • no text present

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090318173904222660670
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89001414b6d38cefd37305eaa33f4eb860810c5602c0a77ff2ecd721c2267182.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC
Archive ID
89001414b6d38cef
SHA-256
89001414b6d38cefd37305eaa33f4eb860810c5602c0a77ff2ecd721c2267182
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 14:17 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020123

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.112843

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 03:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,445 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 773

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • warm (mood, 0.80)
  • gradient (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • orange
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • gradient transition

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular shape with a central bright white area that transitions into a soft gradient of warm orange and brown tones radiating outward. The outermost edges show a mix of darker brown and gray pixels. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with no distinct subjects, objects, or text visible. The overall composition is centered with a smooth color transition from light to warm hues.

Description

A pixelated circular icon with a bright white center surrounded by warm orange and brown tones, featuring a soft gradient transition between colors.

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
  • 20090318173904222660670

Mood

  • neutral
  • warm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • circular white orange brown gradient
  • pixelated gradient icon
  • low-resolution circular icon
  • white center orange brown transition
  • no text circular gradient
  • warm tone pixelated icon
  • centered gradient circle
  • soft color transition icon

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

  • pixelated
  • gradient

Wordwall

  • circular shape
  • bright white center
  • warm orange tones
  • brown gradient
  • pixelated appearance
  • soft color transition
  • low-resolution
  • no visible subjects
  • no text present
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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
20090318173904222660670
Archive entry
20090318173904222660670.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090318173904222660670.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090318173904222660670.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016