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A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font.

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A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font.

A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above sphere
  • heart in top-left
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon features a light gray sphere with subtle shading, a small blue heart symbol in the top-left corner, and black pixelated text reading 'cougars' positioned above the sphere. The background is white. The sphere has a smooth, slightly textured appearance with light and dark gray gradients. The heart symbol is a simple outline with a light blue fill. The text 'cougars' is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The icon is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font.

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

  • cougars buddy icon
  • gray sphere heart icon
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue heart gray sphere

Objects

  • sphere
  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • sphere
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • cougars

Wordwall

  • light gray sphere
  • blue heart symbol
  • black pixelated text
  • white background
  • smooth sphere texture
  • pixelated font
  • text 'cougars'
  • small heart outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808181139801724924
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cb82c2018bf84563309309f205e2662bc3b5980f77f78339c05e46a5f631333.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
9cb82c2018bf8456
SHA-256
9cb82c2018bf84563309309f205e2662bc3b5980f77f78339c05e46a5f631333
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
0.071269

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:58 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,261 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • early 2000s digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • sphere (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • text above sphere
  • heart in top-left
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon features a light gray sphere with subtle shading, a small blue heart symbol in the top-left corner, and black pixelated text reading 'cougars' positioned above the sphere. The background is white. The sphere has a smooth, slightly textured appearance with light and dark gray gradients. The heart symbol is a simple outline with a light blue fill. The text 'cougars' is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early 2000s digital graphics. The icon is static with no visible animation.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a light gray sphere, blue heart symbol, and text reading 'cougars' in black pixelated font.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cougars buddy icon
  • gray sphere heart icon
  • pixelated text icon
  • blue heart gray sphere

Objects

  • sphere
  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • early 2000s digital graphics

Subjects

  • sphere
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • cougars

Wordwall

  • light gray sphere
  • blue heart symbol
  • black pixelated text
  • white background
  • smooth sphere texture
  • pixelated font
  • text 'cougars'
  • small heart outline
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:55 UTC
Run
52
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070808181139801724924
Archive entry
20070808181139801724924.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808181139801724924.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808181139801724924.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016