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A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect.

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A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect.

A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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About this icon

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • radial
  • starburst
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image consists of small square pixels arranged in a radial composition. Colors include light pink, pale blue, soft yellow, and off-white. The central area is brighter with lighter tones, while the outer edges transition into more saturated pastel shades. There are no distinct subjects or objects; the pattern appears to be an abstract design without recognizable figures or text elements.

Description

  • A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802010845331627083820

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated pastel starburst
  • abstract radial pattern
  • light pink blue yellow white pixels
  • no text pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no visual evidence supports these claims.

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • pastel colors
  • radial composition
  • starburst effect
  • no text
  • abstract design
  • light pink
  • pale blue
  • soft yellow
  • off-white

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802010845331627083820
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f2/f2243e447b5fbf5a8116aed4678af2b5974e95c0bc5a6a500a06fe050bc97396.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
f2243e447b5fbf5a
SHA-256
f2243e447b5fbf5a8116aed4678af2b5974e95c0bc5a6a500a06fe050bc97396
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097661

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:07 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,531 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 646

Review tags

  • light pink (color, 0.80)
  • off white (color, 0.80)
  • pale blue (color, 0.80)
  • soft yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • dreamy (mood, 0.80)
  • ethereal (mood, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pastel palette (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • light pink
  • pale blue
  • soft yellow
  • off-white

Composition

  • radial
  • starburst
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image consists of small square pixels arranged in a radial composition. Colors include light pink, pale blue, soft yellow, and off-white. The central area is brighter with lighter tones, while the outer edges transition into more saturated pastel shades. There are no distinct subjects or objects; the pattern appears to be an abstract design without recognizable figures or text elements.

Description

  • A pixelated abstract pattern with radiating pastel colors including pink, blue, yellow, and white forming a starburst effect.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802010845331627083820

Mood

  • calming
  • dreamy
  • ethereal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated pastel starburst
  • abstract radial pattern
  • light pink blue yellow white pixels
  • no text pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no visual evidence supports these claims.

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract
  • pastel palette

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • pastel colors
  • radial composition
  • starburst effect
  • no text
  • abstract design
  • light pink
  • pale blue
  • soft yellow
  • off-white
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Source semantic tags (2)
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
200802010845331627083820
Archive entry
200802010845331627083820.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802010845331627083820.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802010845331627083820.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016