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A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background.

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A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background.

A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • overlapping
  • varied sizes
  • multiple shapes
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image contains multiple overlapping circular shapes in distinct colors: a large blue circle, a large yellow circle with a brown border, a large orange circle, a large green circle with a purple border, a small blue square, a small yellow-green circle, and multiple small magenta circles. All shapes are solid-colored with no gradients or textures. The background is plain white. The circles vary in size from small to large, with some overlapping others. No text or symbols are visible within the shapes. The image has a pixelated appearance with no discernible motion or animation.

Description

A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809111436491568926556

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • overlapping circles blue yellow orange green magenta
  • pixelated circles white background
  • multiple colored circles
  • brown purple borders circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Wordwall

  • overlapping circles
  • blue circle
  • yellow circle
  • orange circle
  • green circle
  • magenta circles
  • brown border
  • purple border
  • white background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809111436491568926556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9a6c30fb40ccf2726a519991e894e24ca8e02bf76c3f0f23b4118ce5547f0e1c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
9a6c30fb40ccf272
SHA-256
9a6c30fb40ccf2726a519991e894e24ca8e02bf76c3f0f23b4118ce5547f0e1c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079134

OpenAI category scores

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A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,506 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 810

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • orange
  • green
  • magenta
  • brown
  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • overlapping
  • varied sizes
  • multiple shapes
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image contains multiple overlapping circular shapes in distinct colors: a large blue circle, a large yellow circle with a brown border, a large orange circle, a large green circle with a purple border, a small blue square, a small yellow-green circle, and multiple small magenta circles. All shapes are solid-colored with no gradients or textures. The background is plain white. The circles vary in size from small to large, with some overlapping others. No text or symbols are visible within the shapes. The image has a pixelated appearance with no discernible motion or animation.

Description

A static composition of overlapping circular shapes in various colors including blue, yellow, orange, green, and magenta on a white background.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200809111436491568926556

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • overlapping circles blue yellow orange green magenta
  • pixelated circles white background
  • multiple colored circles
  • brown purple borders circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • geometric

Subjects

  • circles

Wordwall

  • overlapping circles
  • blue circle
  • yellow circle
  • orange circle
  • green circle
  • magenta circles
  • brown border
  • purple border
  • white background
  • pixelated
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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
200809111436491568926556
Archive entry
200809111436491568926556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809111436491568926556.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809111436491568926556.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016