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A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements.

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A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements.

A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical vertical arrangement
  • central letter within shield
  • bordered by decorative elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a single static icon composed of four identical shield-shaped segments arranged vertically. Each segment features a central stylized letter 'B' rendered in light purple against a white background. The shield is bordered by intricate blue and black decorative patterns with pixelated edges, creating an ornate frame. The overall design has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue purple shield icon
  • stylized B letter pixel art
  • ornate border digital graphic
  • retro internet icon

Visually Supported Entities

  • B

Wordwall

  • shield shape
  • stylized B letter
  • blue and purple color scheme
  • pixelated edges
  • ornate border
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081018114353894922289
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
939c0c6155e042b4
SHA-256
939c0c6155e042b448276ce42537a62aad598d82c6d91261d6c587b535aa3f8c
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 04:41 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000012

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,388 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 563

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • decorative patterns (object, 0.80)
  • ornate (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • letter b (subject, 0.80)
  • shield (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical vertical arrangement
  • central letter within shield
  • bordered by decorative elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a single static icon composed of four identical shield-shaped segments arranged vertically. Each segment features a central stylized letter 'B' rendered in light purple against a white background. The shield is bordered by intricate blue and black decorative patterns with pixelated edges, creating an ornate frame. The overall design has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • A blue and purple pixelated shield-shaped icon with a stylized 'B' in the center, surrounded by ornate decorative elements.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue purple shield icon
  • stylized B letter pixel art
  • ornate border digital graphic
  • retro internet icon

Objects

  • decorative patterns

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • ornate

Subjects

  • shield
  • letter B

Visually Supported Entities

  • B

Wordwall

  • shield shape
  • stylized B letter
  • blue and purple color scheme
  • pixelated edges
  • ornate border
  • white background
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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
20081018114353894922289
Archive entry
20081018114353894922289.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081018114353894922289.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081018114353894922289.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016