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Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown background.

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Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown background.

Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • border pulses outward and inward

Animation Summary

  • The pink border pulses outward and inward rhythmically while the shield, gem, and cross remain static.

Composition

  • central shield
  • bordered
  • static background

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue shield with a red gem at its center, flanked by golden cross-like shapes. This shield is enclosed within a pink, rounded rectangular border on a brown background. The animation shows the pink border pulsing outward and inward rhythmically. The shield's blue background and red gem remain static while the border's movement is the only visible change.

Description

  • Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue shield red gem
  • pulsing pink border
  • animated shield icon
  • blue red golden pink brown
  • ritualistic icon
  • pixelated animated icon
  • border pulsing animation
  • central shield animation

Objects

  • border

Wordwall

  • blue shield
  • red gem
  • golden cross
  • pink border
  • brown background
  • pulsing border
  • animated
  • shield
  • gem
  • cross
  • border
  • brown
  • blue
  • red
  • pink
  • golden
  • pulsing
  • rhythmic
  • static shield

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910121743421223850715
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a8b2e10943e112da35366957f6462b513672608959574f1e1d6e05ded5bfef1a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
a8b2e10943e112da
SHA-256
a8b2e10943e112da35366957f6462b513672608959574f1e1d6e05ded5bfef1a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078971

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 19:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 662

Review tags

  • pulsing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • golden (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • ritualistic (mood, 0.80)
  • border (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cross (subject, 0.80)
  • gem (subject, 0.80)
  • shield (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pulsing

Animation

  • border pulses outward and inward

Animation Summary

  • The pink border pulses outward and inward rhythmically while the shield, gem, and cross remain static.

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • golden
  • pink
  • brown

Composition

  • central shield
  • bordered
  • static background

Dense Caption

The icon features a blue shield with a red gem at its center, flanked by golden cross-like shapes. This shield is enclosed within a pink, rounded rectangular border on a brown background. The animation shows the pink border pulsing outward and inward rhythmically. The shield's blue background and red gem remain static while the border's movement is the only visible change.

Description

  • Animated icon with a blue shield, red gem, and golden cross inside a pink border on a brown 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • mysterious
  • ritualistic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pulsing pink border
  • animated shield icon
  • blue red golden pink brown
  • ritualistic icon
  • pixelated animated icon
  • border pulsing animation
  • central shield animation

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  • border

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • shield
  • gem
  • cross

Wordwall

  • blue shield
  • red gem
  • golden cross
  • pink border
  • brown background
  • pulsing border
  • animated
  • shield
  • gem
  • cross
  • border
  • brown
  • blue
  • red
  • pink
  • golden
  • pulsing
  • rhythmic
  • static shield
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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
200910121743421223850715
Archive entry
200910121743421223850715.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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

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