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Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance

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Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance

Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No animation detected; all four views show identical static icons.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered icons

Dense Caption

Four identical yellow sun-shaped icons with 16-pointed starburst rays, each containing three lines of black pixelated text reading "sun" stacked vertically. The icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon has a distinct pixelated rendering style with visible dithering and blocky edges. The top-left and bottom-left icons have slightly more rounded rays compared to the top-right and bottom-right icons which have sharper, more angular rays. All icons display the same text and color scheme.

Description

  • Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904300055441933176121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sun icon yellow blue
  • pixelated sun text
  • buddy icon sun
  • yellow sun blue background
  • sun text pixel art
  • 16 ray sun icon
  • stacked sun text
  • blue background sun icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • no matte present
  • quarantined description: Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • sun

Wordwall

  • yellow sun icon
  • blue background
  • black text
  • sun
  • pixelated
  • 16 rays
  • stacked text
  • solid blue
  • starburst shape
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • three lines
  • text "sun"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904300055441933176121
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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/c9/c917fbe37ca1ccea4813b00733713c9dae63154bab6dc636c9c4b42599b4db95.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
c917fbe37ca1ccea
SHA-256
c917fbe37ca1ccea4813b00733713c9dae63154bab6dc636c9c4b42599b4db95
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083223

OpenAI category scores

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Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,643 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 789

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • sun (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no motion

Animation Summary

  • No animation detected; all four views show identical static icons.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered icons

Dense Caption

Four identical yellow sun-shaped icons with 16-pointed starburst rays, each containing three lines of black pixelated text reading "sun" stacked vertically. The icons are arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon has a distinct pixelated rendering style with visible dithering and blocky edges. The top-left and bottom-left icons have slightly more rounded rays compared to the top-right and bottom-right icons which have sharper, more angular rays. All icons display the same text and color scheme.

Description

  • Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200904300055441933176121

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated sun text
  • buddy icon sun
  • yellow sun blue background
  • sun text pixel art
  • 16 ray sun icon
  • stacked sun text
  • blue background sun icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • no matte present
  • quarantined description: Four yellow sun-shaped icons with black text "sun" arranged in a 2x2 grid on a blue background, each icon has a pixelated appearance.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro
  • blocky

Subjects

  • sun

Visible Text

  • sun

Wordwall

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  • blue background
  • black text
  • sun
  • pixelated
  • 16 rays
  • stacked text
  • solid blue
  • starburst shape
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
  • three lines
  • text "sun"
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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
200904300055441933176121
Archive entry
200904300055441933176121.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#200904300055441933176121.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904300055441933176121.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016