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A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background.

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A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background.

A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central curved element
  • horizontal lower segment
  • right-side solid shape

Dense Caption

The image is composed of distinct pixel blocks. A bright pink neon-colored curved line extends from the left edge toward the right side, forming an arc that descends slightly before curving upward again. Below this arc, a straight horizontal pink segment spans across the lower portion of the frame. The background consists of small square pixels in varying shades of brown and gray, creating a textured appearance. A solid black rectangular shape appears on the right edge, partially overlapping with red pixel clusters at its bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation title (gallery): 200802051731281136695562
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802051731281136695562

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802051731281136695562

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink neon line brown background
  • pixelated pink curved segment
  • textured gray black rectangle
  • red pixel clusters on right

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with visible pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Wordwall

  • pink neon line
  • horizontal pink segment
  • brownish-gray texture
  • black rectangle
  • red pixel cluster

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802051731281136695562
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae299a3e892117003ed08fcde7ae4219c97d1c0d088df8ff2bbfffa68565e388.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
ae299a3e89211700
SHA-256
ae299a3e892117003ed08fcde7ae4219c97d1c0d088df8ff2bbfffa68565e388
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 08:16 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.190129

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,949 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 759

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • black rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • horizontal pink segment (object, 0.80)
  • neon like curved line (object, 0.80)
  • red pixel clusters (object, 0.80)
  • textured background (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • brown
  • gray
  • black
  • red

Composition

  • central curved element
  • horizontal lower segment
  • right-side solid shape

Dense Caption

The image is composed of distinct pixel blocks. A bright pink neon-colored curved line extends from the left edge toward the right side, forming an arc that descends slightly before curving upward again. Below this arc, a straight horizontal pink segment spans across the lower portion of the frame. The background consists of small square pixels in varying shades of brown and gray, creating a textured appearance. A solid black rectangular shape appears on the right edge, partially overlapping with red pixel clusters at its bottom-right corner.

Description

  • A static pixelated image shows a pink neon-like curved line with a horizontal segment, set against a brownish-gray textured background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation title (gallery): 200802051731281136695562
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802051731281136695562

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802051731281136695562

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink neon line brown background
  • pixelated pink curved segment
  • textured gray black rectangle
  • red pixel clusters on right

Objects

  • neon-like curved line
  • horizontal pink segment
  • textured background
  • black rectangle
  • red pixel clusters

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution with visible pixelation

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Wordwall

  • pink neon line
  • horizontal pink segment
  • brownish-gray texture
  • black rectangle
  • red pixel cluster
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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
200802051731281136695562
Archive entry
200802051731281136695562.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802051731281136695562.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802051731281136695562.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016