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Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base.

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Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base.

Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central cityscape
  • foreground shapes

Dense Caption

Circular icon with orange-brown border. Inside, blue city skyline with multiple skyscrapers. Below skyline, orange-brown abstract shapes resembling flames or stylized forms. Dark blue base beneath shapes. Pixelated rendering. No visible text. Colors: orange-brown, blue, dark blue. Composition: circular frame with central cityscape and foreground shapes.

Description

  • Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • city skyline icon
  • orange-brown border city icon
  • pixelated cityscape icon
  • blue city skyline abstract shapes
  • circular city icon
  • orange-brown city icon
  • blue abstract city icon
  • pixelated city icon

Wordwall

  • circular frame
  • orange-brown border
  • blue city skyline
  • orange-brown abstract shapes
  • dark blue base
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text
  • cityscape composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090215163407928633181
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
9247895ac74e5fae
SHA-256
9247895ac74e5fae78fe46bc3b354177a7b2eedb8a2b4153b5c0044a042185e0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067362

OpenAI category scores

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Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,528 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 638

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange brown (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • abstract shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • city skyline (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange-brown
  • blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • circular frame
  • central cityscape
  • foreground shapes

Dense Caption

Circular icon with orange-brown border. Inside, blue city skyline with multiple skyscrapers. Below skyline, orange-brown abstract shapes resembling flames or stylized forms. Dark blue base beneath shapes. Pixelated rendering. No visible text. Colors: orange-brown, blue, dark blue. Composition: circular frame with central cityscape and foreground shapes.

Description

  • Circular icon with orange-brown border showing blue city skyline and orange-brown abstract shapes on dark blue base.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • city skyline icon
  • orange-brown border city icon
  • pixelated cityscape icon
  • blue city skyline abstract shapes
  • circular city icon
  • orange-brown city icon
  • blue abstract city icon
  • pixelated city icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • icon

Subjects

  • city skyline
  • abstract shapes

Wordwall

  • circular frame
  • orange-brown border
  • blue city skyline
  • orange-brown abstract shapes
  • dark blue base
  • pixelated rendering
  • no visible text
  • cityscape composition
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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
20090215163407928633181
Archive entry
20090215163407928633181.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090215163407928633181.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090215163407928633181.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016