Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.

Permanent icon record

Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.

Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements static across observations.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four corners
  • centered top heart
  • centered starburst

Dense Caption

Black background. Four yellow "TGS" text blocks: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. White pixelated heart at top center. White pixelated starburst shapes: top-right corner, center. All elements static. Text "TGS" in blocky, pixelated font. Colors: black, yellow, white. Composition: symmetrical arrangement of text and shapes. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, clothing, props, or symbols beyond described elements.

Description

  • Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TGS pixel art
  • yellow TGS black background
  • white heart starburst
  • pixelated TGS text
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • TGS black background white heart
  • TGS yellow text white shapes
  • pixel art TGS heart starburst

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Visible Text

  • TGS

Wordwall

  • TGS text
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • pixelated heart
  • pixelated starburst
  • symmetrical composition
  • blocky font
  • static image

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090510074743223592612
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
266 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bf5b6e5ac311c8e5ef24ee776f12c08ae0deacb88e69278dec0fe2b34073e112.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
bf5b6e5ac311c8e5
SHA-256
bf5b6e5ac311c8e5ef24ee776f12c08ae0deacb88e69278dec0fe2b34073e112
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113611

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912033onnx/unsafe0.113611onnx/nsfw0.066393onnx/nsfl0.047218
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,428 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 590

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • heart (object, 0.80)
  • starburst (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all elements static across observations.

Colors

  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four corners
  • centered top heart
  • centered starburst

Dense Caption

Black background. Four yellow "TGS" text blocks: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. White pixelated heart at top center. White pixelated starburst shapes: top-right corner, center. All elements static. Text "TGS" in blocky, pixelated font. Colors: black, yellow, white. Composition: symmetrical arrangement of text and shapes. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, clothing, props, or symbols beyond described elements.

Description

  • Black background with four yellow "TGS" text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • TGS pixel art
  • yellow TGS black background
  • white heart starburst
  • pixelated TGS text
  • symmetrical pixel art
  • TGS black background white heart
  • TGS yellow text white shapes
  • pixel art TGS heart starburst

Objects

  • heart
  • starburst

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • TGS

Wordwall

  • TGS text
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • white heart
  • white starburst
  • pixelated heart
  • pixelated starburst
  • symmetrical composition
  • blocky font
  • static image
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "bf5b6e5ac311c8e5ef24ee776f12c08ae0deacb88e69278dec0fe2b34073e112",
  "description": "Black background with four yellow \u0022TGS\u0022 text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.",
  "denseCaption": "Black background. Four yellow \u0022TGS\u0022 text blocks: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. White pixelated heart at top center. White pixelated starburst shapes: top-right corner, center. All elements static. Text \u0022TGS\u0022 in blocky, pixelated font. Colors: black, yellow, white. Composition: symmetrical arrangement of text and shapes. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, clothing, props, or symbols beyond described elements.",
  "wordwall": [
    "TGS text",
    "yellow text",
    "black background",
    "white heart",
    "white starburst",
    "pixelated heart",
    "pixelated starburst",
    "symmetrical composition",
    "blocky font",
    "static image"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "TGS",
    "TGS",
    "TGS",
    "TGS"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [
    "heart",
    "starburst"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "black",
    "yellow",
    "white"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixel art",
    "blocky",
    "symmetrical"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "symmetrical",
    "four corners",
    "centered top heart",
    "centered starburst"
  ],
  "mood": [],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "animationSummary": "No visible animation changes; all elements static across observations.",
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "TGS pixel art",
    "yellow TGS black background",
    "white heart starburst",
    "pixelated TGS text",
    "symmetrical pixel art",
    "TGS black background white heart",
    "TGS yellow text white shapes",
    "pixel art TGS heart starburst"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "heart",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: heart"
    },
    {
      "tag": "starburst",
      "category": "object",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: starburst"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixel art",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixel art"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blocky",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blocky"
    },
    {
      "tag": "symmetrical",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: symmetrical"
    },
    {
      "tag": "black",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: black"
    },
    {
      "tag": "yellow",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: yellow"
    },
    {
      "tag": "white",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: white"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "bf5b6e5ac311c8e5ef24ee776f12c08ae0deacb88e69278dec0fe2b34073e112",
        "description": "Black background with four yellow \u0022TGS\u0022 text blocks, white pixelated heart, and white pixelated starburst shapes at top corners and center.",
        "denseCaption": "Black background. Four yellow \u0022TGS\u0022 text blocks: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right. White pixelated heart at top center. White pixelated starburst shapes: top-right corner, center. All elements static. Text \u0022TGS\u0022 in blocky, pixelated font. Colors: black, yellow, white. Composition: symmetrical arrangement of text and shapes. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, clothing, props, or symbols beyond described elements.",
        "wordwall": [
          "TGS text",
          "yellow text",
          "black background",
          "white heart",
          "white starburst",
          "pixelated heart",
          "pixelated starburst",
          "symmetrical composition",
          "blocky font",
          "static image"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "TGS",
          "TGS",
          "TGS",
          "TGS"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [
          "heart",
          "starburst"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "black",
          "yellow",
          "white"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixel art",
          "blocky",
          "symmetrical"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "symmetrical",
          "four corners",
          "centered top heart",
          "centered starburst"
        ],
        "mood": [],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "No visible animation changes; all elements static across observations.",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "TGS pixel art",
          "yellow TGS black background",
          "white heart starburst",
          "pixelated TGS text",
          "symmetrical pixel art",
          "TGS black background white heart",
          "TGS yellow text white shapes",
          "pixel art TGS heart starburst"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20090510074743223592612
Archive entry
20090510074743223592612.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090510074743223592612.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090510074743223592612.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016