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Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a

Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced elements

Dense Caption

Blue background with evenly spaced red dots. Four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'chx' text element is identical in style and position. The text uses a pixelated font with rounded edges. The background is solid blue with red dots forming a uniform pattern. The text elements are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the image. The red dots are small, square-shaped, and evenly distributed across the blue background. The text elements are centered within their respective quadrants of the image. The overall composition is symmetrical and balanced.

Description

  • Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a

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

  • blue red dot chx
  • chx
  • pixelated chx
  • symmetrical chx

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: chx grid

Visible Text

  • chx

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red dots
  • four 'chx' text
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced
  • white text
  • small square dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910021534221537007699
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/370ca2da725100361a7715191653a1814c2e2b9b1a001aedd4eaa51202b4115b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
370ca2da72510036
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073654

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,246 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 685

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced elements

Dense Caption

Blue background with evenly spaced red dots. Four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'chx' text element is identical in style and position. The text uses a pixelated font with rounded edges. The background is solid blue with red dots forming a uniform pattern. The text elements are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the image. The red dots are small, square-shaped, and evenly distributed across the blue background. The text elements are centered within their respective quadrants of the image. The overall composition is symmetrical and balanced.

Description

  • Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a

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

  • blue red dot chx
  • chx
  • pixelated chx
  • symmetrical chx

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with red dots and four white 'chx' text elements arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: chx grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • chx

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red dots
  • four 'chx' text
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • evenly spaced
  • white text
  • small square dots
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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
200910021534221537007699
Archive entry
200910021534221537007699.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200910021534221537007699.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910021534221537007699.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016