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Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract shapes including a large curved form and vertical elements against a textured background.

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Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract shapes including a large curved form and vertical elements against a textured background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • centered elements
  • textured background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with low-resolution rendering. Central area features a large curved white shape with black outline, resembling a stylized letter or symbol. Left side contains a tall dark vertical shape with lighter accents. Right side has a smaller dark shape with white highlights. Background consists of mixed gray tones with subtle pixel variations. No discernible text or recognizable figures present. Composition is centered with asymmetrical elements. Style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract shapes including a large curved form and vertical elements against a textured 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 pixel art
  • low-resolution icon
  • textured background
  • asymmetrical composition
  • retro digital style
  • no text
  • mixed gray tones
  • white highlights

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • central curved shape
  • vertical dark element
  • textured background
  • asymmetrical composition
  • retro digital style
  • no text
  • mixed gray tones
  • white highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081108090605817936541
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
f9cee1f859f28090
SHA-256
f9cee1f859f280903c488beb217c7b27a1eb8259421ac93c12aa81276d029cbd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091107

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract shapes including a large curved form and vertical elements against a textured background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,088 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 654

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • asymmetrical
  • centered elements
  • textured background

Dense Caption

Grayscale pixel art icon with low-resolution rendering. Central area features a large curved white shape with black outline, resembling a stylized letter or symbol. Left side contains a tall dark vertical shape with lighter accents. Right side has a smaller dark shape with white highlights. Background consists of mixed gray tones with subtle pixel variations. No discernible text or recognizable figures present. Composition is centered with asymmetrical elements. Style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale icon with abstract shapes including a large curved form and vertical elements against a textured 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 pixel art
  • low-resolution icon
  • textured background
  • asymmetrical composition
  • retro digital style
  • no text
  • mixed gray tones
  • white highlights

Style

  • pixel art
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Wordwall

  • grayscale pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • central curved shape
  • vertical dark element
  • textured background
  • asymmetrical composition
  • retro digital style
  • no text
  • mixed gray tones
  • white highlights
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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
20081108090605817936541
Archive entry
20081108090605817936541.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#20081108090605817936541.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081108090605817936541.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016