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Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face.

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Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face.

Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated sections and text overlays.

Composition

  • divided sections
  • top-left microphone
  • top-right basketball
  • bottom-left panda
  • bottom-right gray space

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into three visible sections. Top-left shows a pixelated microphone with a golden stand and decorative swirls, overlaid with partial text 'lax rox'. Top-right displays a pixelated basketball with visible seams, overlaid with partial text '-ball ro'. Bottom-left features a pixelated panda face with black ears and eye patches, overlaid with partial text 'te pan'. The background is white in the top sections and gray in the bottom-right. Text overlays are black-outlined white letters. The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • microphone basketball panda
  • pixelated text overlays
  • basketball panda microphone
  • text overlays white background
  • low-resolution pixelated icon
  • microphone golden stand
  • basketball seams panda
  • panda face black ears

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • text overlays obscure full subjects

Style

  • text-overlaid

Visible Text

  • lax rox
  • -ball ro
  • te pan

Wordwall

  • microphone
  • basketball
  • panda
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
  • black-outlined white letters
  • golden stand
  • decorative swirls
  • seams
  • black ears
  • eye patches
  • white background
  • gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902271907521749195695
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e0/e0ad7bfaea0286f5fb30ff58058b36c32b29078a10d9dd466e30864edf9ef739.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
e0ad7bfaea0286f5
SHA-256
e0ad7bfaea0286f5fb30ff58058b36c32b29078a10d9dd466e30864edf9ef739
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105004

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925351onnx/unsafe0.105004onnx/nsfw0.068030onnx/nsfl0.036974
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,855 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 805

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • microphone (subject, 0.80)
  • panda face (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated sections and text overlays.

Colors

  • white
  • gray
  • brown
  • black
  • gold
  • yellow

Composition

  • divided sections
  • top-left microphone
  • top-right basketball
  • bottom-left panda
  • bottom-right gray space

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into three visible sections. Top-left shows a pixelated microphone with a golden stand and decorative swirls, overlaid with partial text 'lax rox'. Top-right displays a pixelated basketball with visible seams, overlaid with partial text '-ball ro'. Bottom-left features a pixelated panda face with black ears and eye patches, overlaid with partial text 'te pan'. The background is white in the top sections and gray in the bottom-right. Text overlays are black-outlined white letters. The image has low resolution and pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with partial text overlays and distinct sections showing a microphone, basketball, and panda face.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • microphone basketball panda
  • pixelated text overlays
  • basketball panda microphone
  • text overlays white background
  • low-resolution pixelated icon
  • microphone golden stand
  • basketball seams panda
  • panda face black ears

Objects

  • microphone
  • basketball
  • panda face

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution pixelation
  • text overlays obscure full subjects

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • microphone
  • basketball
  • panda face

Visible Text

  • lax rox
  • -ball ro
  • te pan

Wordwall

  • microphone
  • basketball
  • panda
  • pixelated
  • text overlays
  • black-outlined white letters
  • golden stand
  • decorative swirls
  • seams
  • black ears
  • eye patches
  • white background
  • gray background
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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
200902271907521749195695
Archive entry
200902271907521749195695.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#200902271907521749195695.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902271907521749195695.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016