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Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns.

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Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns.

Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • text-centered
  • symmetrical layout
  • surrounded by circles

Dense Caption

The icon features two side-by-side pixelated text blocks: 'GIRLS RULE' on the left and 'BOYS DROOL' on the right. Both text blocks use bold, blocky black letters with blue and pink pixel accents. Surrounding the text are colored circles (cyan, orange, pink, green) and black-and-white checkered patterns. The left side has a cyan circle top-left, pink circle left, orange circle bottom-left, and green circle bottom-center. The right side has a cyan circle top-right, orange circle top-right, pink circle center-right, orange circle bottom-right, and green circle bottom-right. The background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • girls rule boys drool icon
  • pixelated girls rule boys drool
  • cyan orange pink green circles icon
  • checkered patterns girls rule boys drool

Visible Text

  • GIRLS RULE
  • BOYS DROOL

Wordwall

  • 'GIRLS RULE' text
  • 'BOYS DROOL' text
  • cyan circles
  • orange circles
  • pink circles
  • green circles
  • checkered patterns
  • blocky black letters
  • blue pixel accents
  • pink pixel accents

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708211037071298066548
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/40/40bbaff8aed58c7f3c3af35ab032ea295894b4af6ec7d8060b541ad5e3775bde.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
40bbaff8aed58c7f
SHA-256
40bbaff8aed58c7f3c3af35ab032ea295894b4af6ec7d8060b541ad5e3775bde
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079437

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,583 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 715

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • checkered patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • cyan
  • orange
  • pink
  • green
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • text-centered
  • symmetrical layout
  • surrounded by circles

Dense Caption

The icon features two side-by-side pixelated text blocks: 'GIRLS RULE' on the left and 'BOYS DROOL' on the right. Both text blocks use bold, blocky black letters with blue and pink pixel accents. Surrounding the text are colored circles (cyan, orange, pink, green) and black-and-white checkered patterns. The left side has a cyan circle top-left, pink circle left, orange circle bottom-left, and green circle bottom-center. The right side has a cyan circle top-right, orange circle top-right, pink circle center-right, orange circle bottom-right, and green circle bottom-right. The background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with 'GIRLS RULE' and 'BOYS DROOL' text, surrounded by colored circles and checkered patterns.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • girls rule boys drool icon
  • pixelated girls rule boys drool
  • cyan orange pink green circles icon
  • checkered patterns girls rule boys drool

Objects

  • circles
  • checkered patterns

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • retro

Subjects

  • text
  • circles
  • checkered patterns

Visible Text

  • GIRLS RULE
  • BOYS DROOL

Wordwall

  • 'GIRLS RULE' text
  • 'BOYS DROOL' text
  • cyan circles
  • orange circles
  • pink circles
  • green circles
  • checkered patterns
  • blocky black letters
  • blue pixel accents
  • pink pixel accents
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708211037071298066548
Archive entry
200708211037071298066548.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708211037071298066548.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708211037071298066548.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016