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Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect.

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Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect.

Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central square
  • cardinal arms
  • concentric layers
  • recursive pattern
  • high contrast

Dense Caption

The image displays a high-contrast black-and-white static icon composed of multiple nested angular shapes that form a star-like structure. The outermost layer consists of thick black lines creating sharp angles against white space. Moving inward, there are progressively smaller concentric layers with alternating black and white segments, each featuring irregularly shaped edges that create a recursive, maze-like appearance. At the center is a solid gray square surrounded by four distinct angular arms extending outward in cardinal directions. The entire composition uses only grayscale tones (black, white, and varying shades of gray) without any color variation or additional elements.

Description

Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20070922220613489265819

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale starburst icon
  • concentric angular pattern
  • recursive optical illusion
  • central square with cardinal arms

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image only

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

  • grayscale
  • starburst
  • concentric shapes
  • angular lines
  • recursive pattern
  • optical illusion
  • pixelated
  • central square
  • cardinal arms

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070922220613489265819
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
f9b4bc74c8044f1f
SHA-256
f9b4bc74c8044f1f1831e9a31d55af30d85cb4c3b26ce36fa5e6451cc756989f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:06 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,986 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 740

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • disorienting (mood, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
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  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central square
  • cardinal arms
  • concentric layers
  • recursive pattern
  • high contrast

Dense Caption

The image displays a high-contrast black-and-white static icon composed of multiple nested angular shapes that form a star-like structure. The outermost layer consists of thick black lines creating sharp angles against white space. Moving inward, there are progressively smaller concentric layers with alternating black and white segments, each featuring irregularly shaped edges that create a recursive, maze-like appearance. At the center is a solid gray square surrounded by four distinct angular arms extending outward in cardinal directions. The entire composition uses only grayscale tones (black, white, and varying shades of gray) without any color variation or additional elements.

Description

Black and white pixelated starburst pattern with concentric angular shapes radiating from a central gray square, forming an optical illusion effect.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • 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
  • 20070922220613489265819

Mood

  • dynamic
  • hypnotic
  • disorienting

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale starburst icon
  • concentric angular pattern
  • recursive optical illusion
  • central square with cardinal arms

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image only

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

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  • grayscale
  • minimalist
  • geometric
  • abstract

Wordwall

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  • starburst
  • concentric shapes
  • angular lines
  • recursive pattern
  • optical illusion
  • pixelated
  • central square
  • cardinal arms
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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
20070922220613489265819
Archive entry
20070922220613489265819.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070922220613489265819.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070922220613489265819.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016