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Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base.

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Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base.

Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • bordered

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular static image with a white border and solid blue background. The central area contains a pixelated figure with orange and brown elements on a white base, surrounded by a patterned border of dark green and white squares. The figure appears to have a vertical structure with a base, a central column, and upper elements. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics. The top and bottom edges of the icon are bordered by solid red horizontal bands. The overall composition is centered and symmetrical.

Description

Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base.

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

  • circular icon blue background
  • pixelated figure orange brown
  • red horizontal bands blue background
  • symmetrical composition white border
  • low-resolution graphics blue red white
  • dark green patterned border
  • white base central figure
  • blue background red bands circular icon

Subjects

  • figure

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  • circular icon
  • white border
  • blue background
  • red horizontal bands
  • pixelated figure
  • orange and brown elements
  • white base
  • dark green and white patterned border
  • symmetrical composition
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081212192958301907214
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d7/d749f87f49f530793c8b3a21dfe057499f14b3db21e4418118149f96c82d53e3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
d749f87f49f53079
SHA-256
d749f87f49f530793c8b3a21dfe057499f14b3db21e4418118149f96c82d53e3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.056753

OpenAI category scores

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Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,029 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 722

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • upper elements (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • orange
  • brown
  • dark green

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • bordered

Dense Caption

The icon is a circular static image with a white border and solid blue background. The central area contains a pixelated figure with orange and brown elements on a white base, surrounded by a patterned border of dark green and white squares. The figure appears to have a vertical structure with a base, a central column, and upper elements. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics. The top and bottom edges of the icon are bordered by solid red horizontal bands. The overall composition is centered and symmetrical.

Description

Circular icon with white border and blue background, featuring a pixelated central image of a figure with orange and brown elements on a white base.

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

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  • pixelated figure orange brown
  • red horizontal bands blue background
  • symmetrical composition white border
  • low-resolution graphics blue red white
  • dark green patterned border
  • white base central figure
  • blue background red bands circular icon

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  • base
  • column
  • upper elements

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • symmetrical

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • circular icon
  • white border
  • blue background
  • red horizontal bands
  • pixelated figure
  • orange and brown elements
  • white base
  • dark green and white patterned border
  • symmetrical composition
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
20081212192958301907214
Archive entry
20081212192958301907214.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#20081212192958301907214.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081212192958301907214.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016