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Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered
  • various sizes
  • partial segments

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes. Circles include full circles and partial segments. White circles appear in multiple positions: top-right, center-left, bottom-left, and center. Light purple circles appear in multiple positions: top-left, center, bottom-right, and top-right. Partial white segments appear at bottom-center and right-center. Partial light purple segments appear at center-left and bottom-left. All circles are pixelated with soft edges.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light purple white circles
  • light purple white circles various sizes
  • pixelated abstract pattern
  • scattered circles partial segments
  • blue light purple white circles
  • light purple white circles scattered
  • blue background pixelated circles
  • partial circles blue background

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  • blue background
  • light purple circles
  • white circles
  • various sizes
  • partial segments
  • pixelated edges
  • scattered arrangement
  • soft edges
  • multiple positions
  • full circles

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091212191523876853250
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
a43dbe2f2538bee4
SHA-256
a43dbe2f2538bee46b31740f1e03dbe70e788865045e52428ca7eb1280df5161
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091329

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,782 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 660

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • light purple
  • white

Composition

  • scattered
  • various sizes
  • partial segments

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes. Circles include full circles and partial segments. White circles appear in multiple positions: top-right, center-left, bottom-left, and center. Light purple circles appear in multiple positions: top-left, center, bottom-right, and top-right. Partial white segments appear at bottom-center and right-center. Partial light purple segments appear at center-left and bottom-left. All circles are pixelated with soft edges.

Description

  • Blue background with scattered light purple and white circles of varying sizes, some partially cropped at edges.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background light purple white circles
  • light purple white circles various sizes
  • pixelated abstract pattern
  • scattered circles partial segments
  • blue light purple white circles
  • light purple white circles scattered
  • blue background pixelated circles
  • partial circles blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • repeating pattern

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • light purple circles
  • white circles
  • various sizes
  • partial segments
  • pixelated edges
  • scattered arrangement
  • soft edges
  • multiple positions
  • full circles
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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
20091212191523876853250
Archive entry
20091212191523876853250.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091212191523876853250.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091212191523876853250.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016