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Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements.

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Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements.

Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • radial pattern
  • two white circles
  • text elements in corners
  • multicolored lines

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, radial pattern of multicolored lines (green, blue, red, orange) emanating from the center. Two white circular shapes are positioned vertically, with a vertical blue bar inside the top circle. Below the lower circle, the word "COOL" appears in large, bold, white-outlined black letters. In the top-right corner, the letters "AM" are displayed in purple with a black outline against a white background with faint, multicolored curved lines. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements.

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

  • radial lines cool am
  • blue bar white circles
  • purple am text
  • multicolored pixelated icon
  • retro digital cool am
  • white circles blue bar cool
  • faint curved lines cool am
  • pixelated am cool text

Visible Text

  • COOL
  • AM

Wordwall

  • radial lines
  • multicolored
  • white circles
  • blue bar
  • COOL text
  • AM text
  • purple letters
  • black outline
  • faint curved lines
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005040235151412273560
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
d56d0d4fb291d734
SHA-256
d56d0d4fb291d734683739819a6474fc5618724e40c079d800b7c4193561de16
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072664

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,122 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 762

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • lines (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • purple
  • faint pink
  • faint yellow
  • faint green
  • faint blue

Composition

  • radial pattern
  • two white circles
  • text elements in corners
  • multicolored lines

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, radial pattern of multicolored lines (green, blue, red, orange) emanating from the center. Two white circular shapes are positioned vertically, with a vertical blue bar inside the top circle. Below the lower circle, the word "COOL" appears in large, bold, white-outlined black letters. In the top-right corner, the letters "AM" are displayed in purple with a black outline against a white background with faint, multicolored curved lines. The overall style is retro digital with a low-resolution aesthetic.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with colorful radial lines, two white circular shapes, a vertical blue bar, and bold text elements.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue bar white circles
  • purple am text
  • multicolored pixelated icon
  • retro digital cool am
  • white circles blue bar cool
  • faint curved lines cool am
  • pixelated am cool text

Objects

  • lines
  • circles
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • circles
  • text
  • lines

Visible Text

  • COOL
  • AM

Wordwall

  • radial lines
  • multicolored
  • white circles
  • blue bar
  • COOL text
  • AM text
  • purple letters
  • black outline
  • faint curved lines
  • retro digital
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:39 UTC
Run
61
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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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
201005040235151412273560
Archive entry
201005040235151412273560.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005040235151412273560.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005040235151412273560.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016