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Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape.

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Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape.

Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central bright area
  • surrounding color blends

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image; central region is a large bright white circular area. Surrounding this are blended regions of muted brown (left), dark blue-gray (top-right), light blue (bottom-right), and purple-brown (center-left). No distinct subjects, objects, or text visible in pixels. Composition shows high blur with no clear edges or details; appears to be a heavily compressed or low-resolution image where all visual elements are indistinct.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200802231910452057344921
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802231910452057344921

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802231910452057344921

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated white center blurred colors
  • low resolution indistinct image
  • blurred brown blue gray tones
  • central bright area color blends

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears heavily compressed or low-resolution with no discernible details beyond color regions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Wordwall

  • central bright white area
  • blurred brown tones
  • dark blue-gray region
  • light blue section
  • purple-brown blend
  • no distinct subjects
  • high blur
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802231910452057344921
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e543898eeed05012d9b0fb835003e55fe98eab6dafa45fcfce154c422d8d8f3b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
e543898eeed05012
SHA-256
e543898eeed05012d9b0fb835003e55fe98eab6dafa45fcfce154c422d8d8f3b
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 06:25 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.020185

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.224597

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:02 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,963 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 759

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blurred (style, 0.80)
  • indistinct (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • blue
  • gray
  • purple

Composition

  • central bright area
  • surrounding color blends

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image; central region is a large bright white circular area. Surrounding this are blended regions of muted brown (left), dark blue-gray (top-right), light blue (bottom-right), and purple-brown (center-left). No distinct subjects, objects, or text visible in pixels. Composition shows high blur with no clear edges or details; appears to be a heavily compressed or low-resolution image where all visual elements are indistinct.

Description

  • Pixelated static image with central bright white area surrounded by blurred brown, blue, and gray tones forming an indistinct shape.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200802231910452057344921
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200802231910452057344921

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200802231910452057344921

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated white center blurred colors
  • low resolution indistinct image
  • blurred brown blue gray tones
  • central bright area color blends

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears heavily compressed or low-resolution with no discernible details beyond color regions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blurred
  • indistinct

Wordwall

  • central bright white area
  • blurred brown tones
  • dark blue-gray region
  • light blue section
  • purple-brown blend
  • no distinct subjects
  • high blur
  • low resolution
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200802231910452057344921
Archive entry
200802231910452057344921.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802231910452057344921.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802231910452057344921.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016