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A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols.

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A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols.

A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; the icon appears static with a split-screen layout of a sun on the left and text/symbols on the right.

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left sun, right text/symbols

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into two sections. The left section features a bright, pixelated sun with eight rays on a light blue background. The right section has a solid cyan background. On the right, there is a small yellow lowercase 'i' near the top, a yellow '<3' symbol near the bottom left, and the yellow text 'BSDC' near the bottom right. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style. The sun's brightness creates a soft glow effect on the light blue background. The icon has no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sun cyan background yellow text
  • <3 BSDC yellow text
  • light blue cyan split screen
  • pixelated sun cyan background
  • yellow i <3 BSDC
  • sun light blue background cyan
  • <3 BSDC cyan background
  • yellow text split screen

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • BSDC

Wordwall

  • sun
  • light blue background
  • cyan background
  • yellow text
  • <3 symbol
  • BSDC text
  • pixelated style
  • glow effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807251955031862500264
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b7/b7db9c23e4e9b0740adcd15800517529538f182ffb0f3574d7a9a40ce311bdc8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
b7db9c23e4e9b074
SHA-256
b7db9c23e4e9b0740adcd15800517529538f182ffb0f3574d7a9a40ce311bdc8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079901

OpenAI category scores

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A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,033 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 772

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; the icon appears static with a split-screen layout of a sun on the left and text/symbols on the right.

Colors

  • light blue
  • cyan
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left sun, right text/symbols

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into two sections. The left section features a bright, pixelated sun with eight rays on a light blue background. The right section has a solid cyan background. On the right, there is a small yellow lowercase 'i' near the top, a yellow '<3' symbol near the bottom left, and the yellow text 'BSDC' near the bottom right. All text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style. The sun's brightness creates a soft glow effect on the light blue background. The icon has no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

A split-screen icon with a bright sun on a light blue background on the left and a solid cyan background on the right containing yellow text and symbols.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sun cyan background yellow text
  • <3 BSDC yellow text
  • light blue cyan split screen
  • pixelated sun cyan background
  • yellow i <3 BSDC
  • sun light blue background cyan
  • <3 BSDC cyan background
  • yellow text split screen

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • BSDC

Wordwall

  • sun
  • light blue background
  • cyan background
  • yellow text
  • <3 symbol
  • BSDC text
  • pixelated style
  • glow effect
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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
200807251955031862500264
Archive entry
200807251955031862500264.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807251955031862500264.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807251955031862500264.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016