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A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against a white background.

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A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against a white background.

A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central vertical axis
  • symmetrical horizontal band
  • gradient transitions

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon composed of grayscale tones. It features a prominent vertical dark gray to black gradient running from top to bottom at the center. This vertical element intersects with a horizontal darker band across the upper portion, creating an abstract cross-like structure. The left and right sides transition into lighter grays that fade toward white edges. No text or recognizable symbols are present; the design relies solely on tonal variations for its form.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041919011468704636

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art cross
  • abstract vertical gradient icon
  • pixelated white background shape
  • minimalist grayscale 16x16 icon

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • vertical gradient
  • horizontal band
  • abstract shape
  • white background
  • 16x16 pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804041919011468704636
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aad97b120d58cf7349d76fe9e3914c5848167738dfc744c2c837b8f785b66bf6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
aad97b120d58cf73
SHA-256
aad97b120d58cf7349d76fe9e3914c5848167738dfc744c2c837b8f785b66bf6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101492

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against a white background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,208 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 644

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • central vertical axis
  • symmetrical horizontal band
  • gradient transitions

Dense Caption

The image is a static 16x16 pixel icon composed of grayscale tones. It features a prominent vertical dark gray to black gradient running from top to bottom at the center. This vertical element intersects with a horizontal darker band across the upper portion, creating an abstract cross-like structure. The left and right sides transition into lighter grays that fade toward white edges. No text or recognizable symbols are present; the design relies solely on tonal variations for its form.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon with a central vertical dark band flanked by lighter gradients, forming an abstract cross-like shape against 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804041919011468704636

Mood

  • neutral
  • abstract

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale pixel art cross
  • abstract vertical gradient icon
  • pixelated white background shape
  • minimalist grayscale 16x16 icon

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist
  • grayscale

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • vertical gradient
  • horizontal band
  • abstract shape
  • white background
  • 16x16 pixels
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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
200804041919011468704636
Archive entry
200804041919011468704636.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200804041919011468704636.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804041919011468704636.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016