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A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below.

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A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below.

A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • chain extends from top left to bottom right
  • horizontal bar above two rectangles
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a grayscale pixelated image with a curved chain extending from the top left to bottom right, ending in a looped ring. Below the chain, a horizontal bar with a circular element is positioned above two smaller rectangular shapes. The background is white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or color variations are present.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale chain looped ring
  • pixelated bar rectangles
  • low-resolution grayscale icon
  • chain horizontal bar rectangles
  • grayscale white background icon
  • pixelated chain ring
  • grayscale bar circular element
  • chain looped ring white background

Objects

  • ring

Subjects

  • ring

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • chain
  • looped ring
  • horizontal bar
  • circular element
  • two rectangles
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090613081231412329878
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
998 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bb/bb03a84d66e68f48ace406db5b09173cffb6bbc43e2dd70796e3d7001a73f1c5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
bb03a84d66e68f48
SHA-256
bb03a84d66e68f48ace406db5b09173cffb6bbc43e2dd70796e3d7001a73f1c5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068315

OpenAI category scores

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A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,330 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 673

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bar (subject, 0.80)
  • chain (subject, 0.80)
  • rectangles (subject, 0.80)
  • ring (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • chain extends from top left to bottom right
  • horizontal bar above two rectangles
  • white background

Dense Caption

The icon is a grayscale pixelated image with a curved chain extending from the top left to bottom right, ending in a looped ring. Below the chain, a horizontal bar with a circular element is positioned above two smaller rectangular shapes. The background is white. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. No text or color variations are present.

Description

A grayscale pixelated icon shows a curved chain with a looped end, a horizontal bar with a circular element, and two smaller rectangular shapes below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale chain looped ring
  • pixelated bar rectangles
  • low-resolution grayscale icon
  • chain horizontal bar rectangles
  • grayscale white background icon
  • pixelated chain ring
  • grayscale bar circular element
  • chain looped ring white background

Objects

  • chain
  • ring
  • bar
  • rectangles

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • chain
  • ring
  • bar
  • rectangles

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • chain
  • looped ring
  • horizontal bar
  • circular element
  • two rectangles
  • white background
  • low-resolution
  • blocky
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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
20090613081231412329878
Archive entry
20090613081231412329878.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090613081231412329878.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090613081231412329878.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016