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Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow patterns.

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Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow patterns.

Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow patterns. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • swirling background patterns
  • centered text
  • dense composition

Dense Caption

The icon features a black background with swirling, abstract patterns in pink, blue, green, and yellow. Five rows of white block letters spell 'xoxo' in a pixelated style. The text is arranged vertically, with each 'xoxo' row centered. The patterns appear to be hand-drawn or digitally rendered with a low-resolution, retro aesthetic. The overall composition is dense and colorful, with no visible borders or additional elements.

Description

Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow 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 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

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  • black background xoxo
  • swirling patterns xoxo
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  • colorful xoxo icon
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  • vertical xoxo text

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  • xoxo

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  • black background
  • swirling patterns
  • pink
  • blue
  • green
  • yellow
  • pixelated
  • block letters
  • vertical text
  • low-resolution
  • retro aesthetic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708101524281347849588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
4c0bfd08807354e2
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
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July 26, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow patterns.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:51 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,980 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 718

Review tags

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Dense Caption

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Description

Pixelated icon with repeated 'xoxo' text in white block letters over a black background with swirling pink, blue, green, and yellow 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • playful
  • nostalgic

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  • black background xoxo
  • swirling patterns xoxo
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  • pixelated xoxo text
  • colorful xoxo icon
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  • abstract

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
52
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708101524281347849588
Archive entry
200708101524281347849588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708101524281347849588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708101524281347849588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016