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Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans, overlaid with a name in colored text.

Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans, overlaid with a name in colored text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text overlays change sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'Cheyenne' to 'Rose' to 'Steffen' while the globe background remains static.

Composition

  • circular
  • centered text
  • globe background

Dense Caption

Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans in blue, green, and yellow tones. Three distinct name overlays appear sequentially: 'Cheyenne' in black text on a pink rectangular background, 'Rose' in black text on a blue rectangular background, and 'Steffen' in black text on a green rectangular background. Each name overlay is centered horizontally across the icon's middle. The icon has a thin dark border.

Description

  • Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans, overlaid with a name in colored text.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • globe background text overlays
  • pink blue green text boxes
  • Cheyenne Rose Steffen names
  • circular icon text changes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte detected
  • no cropping detected

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

Visible Text

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Visually Supported Entities

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Wordwall

  • globe background
  • blue ocean
  • green land
  • yellow continents
  • pink text box
  • blue text box
  • green text box
  • black text
  • centered name
  • thin dark border
  • circular shape
  • text overlays

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090115181458512575117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9ca230b5957adfdb9cea11d3e18c0bf7462507b806541d26ec92d0c5c471602d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
9ca230b5957adfdb
SHA-256
9ca230b5957adfdb9cea11d3e18c0bf7462507b806541d26ec92d0c5c471602d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080685

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans, overlaid with a name in colored text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,014 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 807

Review tags

  • text overlay changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • globe (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text overlay changes

Animation

  • text overlays change sequentially

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'Cheyenne' to 'Rose' to 'Steffen' while the globe background remains static.

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • circular
  • centered text
  • globe background

Dense Caption

Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans in blue, green, and yellow tones. Three distinct name overlays appear sequentially: 'Cheyenne' in black text on a pink rectangular background, 'Rose' in black text on a blue rectangular background, and 'Steffen' in black text on a green rectangular background. Each name overlay is centered horizontally across the icon's middle. The icon has a thin dark border.

Description

  • Circular icon with a globe-like background showing continents and oceans, overlaid with a name in colored text.

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • globe background text overlays
  • pink blue green text boxes
  • Cheyenne Rose Steffen names
  • circular icon text changes

Objects

  • text boxes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte detected
  • no cropping detected

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • globe
  • text

Visible Text

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Visually Supported Entities

  • Cheyenne
  • Rose
  • Steffen

Wordwall

  • globe background
  • blue ocean
  • green land
  • yellow continents
  • pink text box
  • blue text box
  • green text box
  • black text
  • centered name
  • thin dark border
  • circular shape
  • text overlays
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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
20090115181458512575117
Archive entry
20090115181458512575117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#20090115181458512575117.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090115181458512575117.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016