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Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center.

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Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center.

Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Source terms

Composition

  • square crop
  • central black bar
  • scattered shapes

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background; black horizontal bar spans center with partial text; visible text fragments include 'sh' and 'M' on black bar; blue shapes form curved lines and angular forms; gray shapes include thin vertical lines and small squares; white background has scattered light gray pixels; icon has square crop with thin blue border; no discernible characters or objects; static image with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • abstract blue gray icon
  • pixelated text bar icon
  • white background blue shapes
  • black bar partial text icon

Visible Text

  • sh
  • M

Wordwall

  • abstract shapes
  • blue and gray
  • white background
  • black bar
  • partial text
  • pixelated
  • square crop
  • thin blue border

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080228161343854813557
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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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/90/90eb4be4f8fb6484e26c7441527fbde3ad10ed37b6ff6eb136de42fb188f4473.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
90eb4be4f8fb6484
SHA-256
90eb4be4f8fb6484e26c7441527fbde3ad10ed37b6ff6eb136de42fb188f4473
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075255

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,592 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 614

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • square crop
  • central black bar
  • scattered shapes

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background; black horizontal bar spans center with partial text; visible text fragments include 'sh' and 'M' on black bar; blue shapes form curved lines and angular forms; gray shapes include thin vertical lines and small squares; white background has scattered light gray pixels; icon has square crop with thin blue border; no discernible characters or objects; static image with no visible motion.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with abstract blue and gray shapes on white background, black horizontal bar with partial text across center.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • abstract blue gray icon
  • pixelated text bar icon
  • white background blue shapes
  • black bar partial text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract

Visible Text

  • sh
  • M

Wordwall

  • abstract shapes
  • blue and gray
  • white background
  • black bar
  • partial text
  • pixelated
  • square crop
  • thin blue border
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:24 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20080228161343854813557
Archive entry
20080228161343854813557.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080228161343854813557.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080228161343854813557.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016