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Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings.

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Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings.

Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Composition

  • centered icons
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Each icon features three concentric rings: an outer lime green ring, a middle pink ring, and an innermost pink ring. Above each icon's rings, light blue text reads "JfILx" with a small blue square symbol to the right of the text. The text and rings have a pixelated appearance. The icons are visually identical across all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings.

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

  • four identical circular icons pink background
  • JfILx text concentric rings
  • lime green pink light blue rings
  • pixelated buddy icon text
  • concentric rings

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid concentric rings

Visible Text

  • JfILx

Wordwall

  • four identical circular icons
  • pink background
  • concentric rings
  • lime green outer ring
  • pink middle ring
  • pink inner ring
  • light blue text
  • text reads JfILx
  • small blue square symbol
  • pixelated appearance

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070821091134837849414
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
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d1709acd0badb65ba115813f602e546d6de2604fb34ae64f83719fd73361fd0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
7d1709acd0badb65
SHA-256
7d1709acd0badb65ba115813f602e546d6de2604fb34ae64f83719fd73361fd0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099565

OpenAI category scores

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

Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,161 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 671

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • lime green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • lime green
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered icons
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid pink background. Each icon features three concentric rings: an outer lime green ring, a middle pink ring, and an innermost pink ring. Above each icon's rings, light blue text reads "JfILx" with a small blue square symbol to the right of the text. The text and rings have a pixelated appearance. The icons are visually identical across all four positions.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with concentric rings on a pink background, each displaying light blue text above the rings.

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

  • four identical circular icons pink background
  • JfILx text concentric rings
  • lime green pink light blue rings
  • pixelated buddy icon text
  • concentric rings

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid concentric rings

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • JfILx

Wordwall

  • four identical circular icons
  • pink background
  • concentric rings
  • lime green outer ring
  • pink middle ring
  • pink inner ring
  • light blue text
  • text reads JfILx
  • small blue square symbol
  • pixelated appearance
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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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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
20070821091134837849414
Archive entry
20070821091134837849414.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#20070821091134837849414.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070821091134837849414.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016