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Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique color schemes and motion patterns

Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique color schemes and motion patterns. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • independent animation per icon
  • rotating segments in top-left
  • spiral motion in top-right
  • flower rotation bottom-left
  • rainbow arc with cloud movement bottom-right

Animation Summary

Four distinct animated icons: top-left rotates blue/purple/red/yellow segments, top-right spirals rainbow gradient, bottom-left spins flower shape with black center, bottom-right shows rainbow arc over clouds with small skull icon.

Composition

  • four distinct icons
  • each icon occupies one quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left: A radial burst of colored segments (blue, purple, red, yellow) on gray background. Top-right: Spiral rainbow gradient transitioning from blue to pink to orange. Bottom-left: Colorful flower-like shape with black center rotating against gray backdrop. Bottom-right: Rainbow arc over white clouds with small skull icon in top-left corner; all four icons animate independently.

Description

  • Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique color schemes and motion patterns

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow cloud buddy icon
  • spiral rainbow animation
  • flower rotation gray background
  • skull rainbow cloud icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and motion patterns.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Subjects

  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • colorful shapes
  • rainbow arc
  • clouds
  • skull

Wordwall

  • radial burst
  • spiral rainbow
  • flower rotation
  • rainbow cloud
  • gray background
  • black center
  • skull icon

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080525025710166383046
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.3 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 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
8d28f1273f7c1e19
SHA-256
8d28f1273f7c1e194fb34ee979c12b6848cc5a9058d6f9145594791d678c6f32
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108401

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Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique color schemes and motion patterns

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:02 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,089 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 738

Review tags

  • animating independently (action, 0.80)
  • rotating (action, 0.80)
  • spinning (action, 0.80)
  • black center (object, 0.80)
  • gray background (object, 0.80)
  • small skull icon (object, 0.80)
  • white clouds (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • clouds (subject, 0.80)
  • colorful shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • rainbow arc (subject, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotating
  • spinning
  • animating independently

Animation

  • independent animation per icon
  • rotating segments in top-left
  • spiral motion in top-right
  • flower rotation bottom-left
  • rainbow arc with cloud movement bottom-right

Animation Summary

Four distinct animated icons: top-left rotates blue/purple/red/yellow segments, top-right spirals rainbow gradient, bottom-left spins flower shape with black center, bottom-right shows rainbow arc over clouds with small skull icon.

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • cyan
  • pink
  • orange
  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four distinct icons
  • each icon occupies one quadrant

Dense Caption

Top-left: A radial burst of colored segments (blue, purple, red, yellow) on gray background. Top-right: Spiral rainbow gradient transitioning from blue to pink to orange. Bottom-left: Colorful flower-like shape with black center rotating against gray backdrop. Bottom-right: Rainbow arc over white clouds with small skull icon in top-left corner; all four icons animate independently.

Description

  • Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a , each with unique color schemes and motion patterns

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: buddy icons

Mood

  • playful
  • vibrant
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rainbow cloud buddy icon
  • spiral rainbow animation
  • flower rotation gray background
  • skull rainbow cloud icon

Objects

  • gray background
  • black center
  • white clouds
  • small skull icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four distinct animated buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with unique color schemes and motion patterns.
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated
  • colorful
  • abstract

Subjects

  • buddy icons
  • colorful shapes
  • rainbow arc
  • clouds
  • skull

Visually Supported Entities

  • colorful shapes
  • rainbow arc
  • clouds
  • skull

Wordwall

  • radial burst
  • spiral rainbow
  • flower rotation
  • rainbow cloud
  • gray background
  • black center
  • skull icon
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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
20080525025710166383046
Archive entry
20080525025710166383046.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080525025710166383046.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080525025710166383046.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016