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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on white background.

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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on white background.

Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical
  • central subject
  • white background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with low-resolution rendering. Central subject is a vertical, multi-tiered tower structure with a square base, rectangular middle section, and pointed spire. The tower has horizontal bands and small protrusions. A broken circular ring of gray dots encircles the tower, with additional scattered dots to the right. Background is solid white. No visible text or color beyond grayscale. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on 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 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

  • grayscale tower pixel art
  • broken ring dots white background
  • pixel art tower scattered dots
  • grayscale tower circular ring

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • tower structure
  • circular broken ring
  • scattered dots
  • white background
  • vertical composition
  • low-resolution
  • no text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810301022422031748099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e2/e2330efdc62b94fa7f8158d6a3c4427a9b039f86bb2fa17cb334392a19ddf238.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
e2330efdc62b94fa
SHA-256
e2330efdc62b94fa7f8158d6a3c4427a9b039f86bb2fa17cb334392a19ddf238
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077142

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,207 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 637

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • circular broken ring (object, 0.80)
  • scattered dots (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • tower (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • vertical
  • central subject
  • white background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with low-resolution rendering. Central subject is a vertical, multi-tiered tower structure with a square base, rectangular middle section, and pointed spire. The tower has horizontal bands and small protrusions. A broken circular ring of gray dots encircles the tower, with additional scattered dots to the right. Background is solid white. No visible text or color beyond grayscale. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon of a stylized tower with circular base and spire, surrounded by a broken ring of dots on 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 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

  • grayscale tower pixel art
  • broken ring dots white background
  • pixel art tower scattered dots
  • grayscale tower circular ring

Objects

  • circular broken ring
  • scattered dots

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • tower

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • tower structure
  • circular broken ring
  • scattered dots
  • white background
  • vertical composition
  • low-resolution
  • no text
  • static image
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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
200810301022422031748099
Archive entry
200810301022422031748099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810301022422031748099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810301022422031748099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016