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A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray background.

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A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray background.

A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular arrangement
  • central focus
  • symmetrical color distribution

Dense Caption

The image is a static 64x64 pixel icon composed of distinct color blocks. The central area features overlapping swirls of bright cyan, deep blue, magenta, and red pixels. Surrounding this core are bands of orange, yellow, and light green pixels forming an outer ring. A solid dark gray background occupies the top-left corner. Pixelation creates sharp edges between colors without blending or gradients.

Description

  • A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711031620411537572207
  • 200711041322231889325532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract swirl icon
  • cyan blue magenta color blocks
  • 64x64 pixel grid
  • swirling orange yellow ring
  • dark gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Wordwall

  • 64x64 pixel grid
  • swirling color blocks
  • cyan center
  • blue magenta swirls
  • orange yellow ring
  • dark gray background
  • no text visible
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711031620411537572207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711041322231889325532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b31d674f2d42880f57c9d22f73576a1de42a2b945b2cc2a817f37324535e1d42.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
b31d674f2d42880f
SHA-256
b31d674f2d42880f57c9d22f73576a1de42a2b945b2cc2a817f37324535e1d42
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086038

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,121 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 785

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • non representational (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • magenta
  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • light green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • circular arrangement
  • central focus
  • symmetrical color distribution

Dense Caption

The image is a static 64x64 pixel icon composed of distinct color blocks. The central area features overlapping swirls of bright cyan, deep blue, magenta, and red pixels. Surrounding this core are bands of orange, yellow, and light green pixels forming an outer ring. A solid dark gray background occupies the top-left corner. Pixelation creates sharp edges between colors without blending or gradients.

Description

  • A pixelated abstract composition with swirling orange, blue, pink, and yellow hues forming a circular shape against a dark gray 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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711031620411537572207
  • 200711041322231889325532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated abstract swirl icon
  • cyan blue magenta color blocks
  • 64x64 pixel grid
  • swirling orange yellow ring
  • dark gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • abstract
  • non-representational

Wordwall

  • 64x64 pixel grid
  • swirling color blocks
  • cyan center
  • blue magenta swirls
  • orange yellow ring
  • dark gray background
  • no text visible
  • pixelated rendering
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Full source records (2)

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
200711031620411537572207
Archive entry
200711031620411537572207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711031620411537572207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711031620411537572207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200711041322231889325532
Archive entry
200711041322231889325532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711041322231889325532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711041322231889325532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016