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A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull.

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A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull.

A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image

Composition

  • centered skull
  • X-shaped crossbones

Dense Caption

The icon displays a white outline of a skull and crossbones on a solid gray background. The skull's surface is composed of a pixelated disco ball texture with alternating light and dark gray squares. The crossbones are positioned beneath the skull, forming an X shape. The icon is static with no visible animation changes. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution pixel art aesthetic.

Description

  • A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • disco ball skull
  • pixel art crossbones
  • gray background skull
  • retro digital icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; static image

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

Subjects

  • skull

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • white outline
  • skull
  • crossbones
  • disco ball texture
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • X-shaped crossbones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807112010052014241639
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8a/8a7c1d5544af04daa656b37b9ce9d59f02f684ba852b75152c67132c33c530de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
8a7c1d5544af04da
SHA-256
8a7c1d5544af04daa656b37b9ce9d59f02f684ba852b75152c67132c33c530de
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Run
15966
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010270

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
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1127
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Overall label
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A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:57 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,095 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 716

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • crossbones (subject, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; static image

Colors

  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • centered skull
  • X-shaped crossbones

Dense Caption

The icon displays a white outline of a skull and crossbones on a solid gray background. The skull's surface is composed of a pixelated disco ball texture with alternating light and dark gray squares. The crossbones are positioned beneath the skull, forming an X shape. The icon is static with no visible animation changes. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution pixel art aesthetic.

Description

  • A pixelated icon with a white skull and crossbones outline on a gray background, featuring a disco ball texture on the skull.

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
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • disco ball skull
  • pixel art crossbones
  • gray background skull
  • retro digital icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed; static image

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

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • skull
  • crossbones

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • white outline
  • skull
  • crossbones
  • disco ball texture
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution
  • X-shaped crossbones
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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
200807112010052014241639
Archive entry
200807112010052014241639.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807112010052014241639.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807112010052014241639.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016