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A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background.

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A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background.

A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000…

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Composition

  • central text with scattered icons around it

Dense Caption

Central light blue blocky text reads XOXO. Surrounding the text are multiple small, low-resolution pixelated icons: top-left pinkish-red, upper-center dark blue, right-side purple, bottom-right red-brown, lower-middle dark blue, left-side gray, bottom-left orange, and scattered green elements. All icons appear static with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • XOXO pixel art
  • scattered icons white background
  • light blue blocky text
  • pixelated icon collection

Visible Text

  • XOXO

Visually Supported Entities

  • XOXO text

Wordwall

  • XOXO text
  • light blue blocky font
  • scattered pixelated icons
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081229194610674368809
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
903 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7eea8bb35f7f7c0a2b2a1de11c323bbc300bb5cc53043a0edf2114a3acd6fd6e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7eea8bb35f7f7c0a
SHA-256
7eea8bb35f7f7c0a2b2a1de11c323bbc300bb5cc53043a0edf2114a3acd6fd6e
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
1089
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082238

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A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,681 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 550

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pinkish red (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red brown (color, 0.80)
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  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • pinkish-red
  • dark blue
  • purple
  • red-brown
  • gray
  • orange
  • green

Composition

  • central text with scattered icons around it

Dense Caption

Central light blue blocky text reads XOXO. Surrounding the text are multiple small, low-resolution pixelated icons: top-left pinkish-red, upper-center dark blue, right-side purple, bottom-right red-brown, lower-middle dark blue, left-side gray, bottom-left orange, and scattered green elements. All icons appear static with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A central blue 'XOXO' text surrounded by scattered pixelated icons on a white background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • XOXO pixel art
  • scattered icons white background
  • light blue blocky text
  • pixelated icon collection

Objects

  • icons

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • text
  • pixelated icons

Visible Text

  • XOXO

Visually Supported Entities

  • XOXO text

Wordwall

  • XOXO text
  • light blue blocky font
  • scattered pixelated icons
  • white background
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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
20081229194610674368809
Archive entry
20081229194610674368809.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081229194610674368809.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081229194610674368809.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016