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A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white background.

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A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white background.

A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central sphere
  • text in corners
  • heart symbols near text

Dense Caption

Gray sphere with subtle shading occupies central area. Blue text: "Long Island Breeze" in top-left with small blue heart symbol. Text "Best buds" in bottom-left with small blue heart symbol. All text is sans-serif. Background is solid white. No visible animation or motion. Text "Lori #22", "Ecco #14", "Mellisa #17" appears in top-right but is partially obscured.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707291617241272336771
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray sphere blue text heart
  • Long Island Breeze Best buds
  • Lori Ecco Mellisa #22 #14 #17
  • static buddy icon white background

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Long Island Breeze
  • Best buds
  • Lori #22
  • Ecco #14
  • Mellisa #17

Wordwall

  • gray sphere
  • blue text
  • heart symbol
  • white background
  • sans-serif font
  • partially obscured text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707291617241272336771
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cd/cde8655daa08a3f368bc7d03860dba40c82707fc52c1be17003b0c94f2c14da5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
cde8655daa08a3f3
SHA-256
cde8655daa08a3f368bc7d03860dba40c82707fc52c1be17003b0c94f2c14da5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079568

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,324 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 717

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • gray sphere (subject, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central sphere
  • text in corners
  • heart symbols near text

Dense Caption

Gray sphere with subtle shading occupies central area. Blue text: "Long Island Breeze" in top-left with small blue heart symbol. Text "Best buds" in bottom-left with small blue heart symbol. All text is sans-serif. Background is solid white. No visible animation or motion. Text "Lori #22", "Ecco #14", "Mellisa #17" appears in top-right but is partially obscured.

Description

  • A static buddy icon with a gray sphere, blue text, and a heart symbol on a white 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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707291617241272336771
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gray sphere blue text heart
  • Long Island Breeze Best buds
  • Lori Ecco Mellisa #22 #14 #17
  • static buddy icon white background

Objects

  • gray sphere
  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • text-based

Subjects

  • gray sphere
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Long Island Breeze
  • Best buds
  • Lori #22
  • Ecco #14
  • Mellisa #17

Wordwall

  • gray sphere
  • blue text
  • heart symbol
  • white background
  • sans-serif font
  • partially obscured text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:42 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200707291617241272336771
Archive entry
200707291617241272336771.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707291617241272336771.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707291617241272336771.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016