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A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle.

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A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle.

A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • letter M centered horizontally
  • letter M positioned upper left
  • gray rectangle in bottom right quadrant

Dense Caption

The image shows a large orange capital letter M with a white outline on a black background. The letter M has a pixelated appearance with visible anti-aliasing. The bottom right corner of the image contains a solid gray rectangle that overlaps the lower right portion of the letter M. The gray rectangle is positioned in the bottom right quadrant of the image. The background is entirely black except for the gray rectangle. The letter M is centered horizontally and positioned in the upper left portion of the image.

Description

  • A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle.

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

  • orange M white outline
  • black background gray rectangle
  • pixelated M
  • gray rectangle overlapping M
  • M centered horizontally
  • M upper left
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • blocky M

Visible Text

  • M

Wordwall

  • orange letter M
  • white outline
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • anti-aliasing
  • centered horizontally
  • upper left position
  • bottom right quadrant
  • solid gray

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081103132828920469672
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec776c9c67e17dec931c9232da56644fabf39da9873636ebd16031e5b8f1f88c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
ec776c9c67e17dec
SHA-256
ec776c9c67e17dec931c9232da56644fabf39da9873636ebd16031e5b8f1f88c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000010

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 22:33 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
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1140
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Overall score
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A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,828 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 669

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • letter m (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • letter M centered horizontally
  • letter M positioned upper left
  • gray rectangle in bottom right quadrant

Dense Caption

The image shows a large orange capital letter M with a white outline on a black background. The letter M has a pixelated appearance with visible anti-aliasing. The bottom right corner of the image contains a solid gray rectangle that overlaps the lower right portion of the letter M. The gray rectangle is positioned in the bottom right quadrant of the image. The background is entirely black except for the gray rectangle. The letter M is centered horizontally and positioned in the upper left portion of the image.

Description

  • A large orange letter M with white outline on black background, partially overlaid by gray rectangle.

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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  • black background gray rectangle
  • pixelated M
  • gray rectangle overlapping M
  • M centered horizontally
  • M upper left
  • gray rectangle bottom right
  • blocky M

Objects

  • gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • letter M

Visible Text

  • M

Wordwall

  • orange letter M
  • white outline
  • black background
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated
  • anti-aliasing
  • centered horizontally
  • upper left position
  • bottom right quadrant
  • solid gray
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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
20081103132828920469672
Archive entry
20081103132828920469672.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#20081103132828920469672.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081103132828920469672.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016