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Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom.

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Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom.

Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bordered frame
  • side-by-side figures
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with red and black border. Two stylized figures: left figure has light gray and white tones with dark eyes and mouth; right figure has red and dark tones with flowing hair or wings. White text at bottom reads 'allMetal' in blocky font. Background is white. Border has red inner and black outer layers. Figures are positioned side-by-side within the border. Pixelation is prominent throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • allMetal icon
  • red black border
  • two stylized figures
  • pixelated allMetal
  • blocky font allMetal
  • red and gray figures
  • bordered frame
  • white background

Visible Text

  • allMetal

Wordwall

  • red and black border
  • two stylized figures
  • light gray and white left figure
  • red and dark right figure
  • flowing hair or wings
  • white text 'allMetal'
  • blocky font
  • white background
  • prominent pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809221231461229691195
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b2a2002cdb1f80061151089cd530a06d1031d7cc339a875f4146046249c8010.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8b2a2002cdb1f800
SHA-256
8b2a2002cdb1f80061151089cd530a06d1031d7cc339a875f4146046249c8010
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
September 1, 2026 at 03:43 UTC
Run
15972
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000023

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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 12:33 UTC
Run
1281
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,277 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • two stylized figures (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • bordered frame
  • side-by-side figures
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with red and black border. Two stylized figures: left figure has light gray and white tones with dark eyes and mouth; right figure has red and dark tones with flowing hair or wings. White text at bottom reads 'allMetal' in blocky font. Background is white. Border has red inner and black outer layers. Figures are positioned side-by-side within the border. Pixelation is prominent throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with red and black border, two stylized figures, and white text at bottom.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red black border
  • two stylized figures
  • pixelated allMetal
  • blocky font allMetal
  • red and gray figures
  • bordered frame
  • white background

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • two stylized figures

Visible Text

  • allMetal

Wordwall

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  • two stylized figures
  • light gray and white left figure
  • red and dark right figure
  • flowing hair or wings
  • white text 'allMetal'
  • blocky font
  • white background
  • prominent pixelation
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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
200809221231461229691195
Archive entry
200809221231461229691195.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809221231461229691195.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809221231461229691195.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016