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Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle.

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Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle.

Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • even spacing
  • text above each circle

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical circular shapes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each circle is light blue and positioned against a solid cyan background. Above each circle, the text "Fo' Circle" appears in black pixelated font. The circles are evenly spaced with consistent spacing between rows and columns. All four instances of the icon show no visible differences or changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712140538061181196850

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue circles cyan background
  • Fo' Circle text pixelated
  • four identical circles
  • cyan background light blue circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical circles 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Fo' Circle

Wordwall

  • light blue
  • cyan background
  • four identical circles
  • "Fo' Circle" text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712140538061181196850
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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/61/6120d26a0297ca418f3f1829b41971a8cc8d16eb273a3e84e05d01e9b2a702ed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
6120d26a0297ca41
SHA-256
6120d26a0297ca418f3f1829b41971a8cc8d16eb273a3e84e05d01e9b2a702ed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083174

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:48 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,079 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 635

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue

Composition

  • even spacing
  • text above each circle

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical circular shapes arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each circle is light blue and positioned against a solid cyan background. Above each circle, the text "Fo' Circle" appears in black pixelated font. The circles are evenly spaced with consistent spacing between rows and columns. All four instances of the icon show no visible differences or changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical light blue circles on a cyan background with 'Fo' Circle text above each circle.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712140538061181196850

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue circles cyan background
  • Fo' Circle text pixelated
  • four identical circles
  • cyan background light blue circles

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical circles 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • circles

Visible Text

  • Fo' Circle

Wordwall

  • light blue
  • cyan background
  • four identical circles
  • "Fo' Circle" text
  • pixelated font
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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
200712140538061181196850
Archive entry
200712140538061181196850.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#200712140538061181196850.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712140538061181196850.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016