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Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions.

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Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions.

Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating horizontal
  • scattered stars
  • three text instances

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes. The word 'dotty' appears in orange text at three positions: top-middle, middle-right, and bottom-middle. The 'xoxo' patterns form horizontal rows across the image. Pink star shapes are scattered throughout the background. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue orange pink stars
  • xoxo dotty text
  • pixelated retro digital
  • repeating horizontal

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating horizontal rows

Visible Text

  • dotty

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange 'xoxo' patterns
  • pink star shapes
  • orange 'dotty' text
  • pixelated style
  • repeating horizontal
  • scattered stars
  • three 'dotty' instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707241846361074434026
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
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 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
8bc4f4ec00727c4a
SHA-256
8bc4f4ec00727c4ab51f7f801b0b21b9f1ec0b1ea584285278a0bb42e7e3703e
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
Run
1284
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
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1127
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,542 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 596

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • pink

Composition

  • repeating horizontal
  • scattered stars
  • three text instances

Dense Caption

Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes. The word 'dotty' appears in orange text at three positions: top-middle, middle-right, and bottom-middle. The 'xoxo' patterns form horizontal rows across the image. Pink star shapes are scattered throughout the background. The image has a pixelated, retro digital style with no visible animation.

Description

  • Blue background with repeating orange 'xoxo' patterns and pink star shapes, featuring the word 'dotty' in orange text at three positions.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue orange pink stars
  • xoxo dotty text
  • pixelated retro digital
  • repeating horizontal

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined composition: repeating horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: repeating horizontal rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • dotty

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange 'xoxo' patterns
  • pink star shapes
  • orange 'dotty' text
  • pixelated style
  • repeating horizontal
  • scattered stars
  • three 'dotty' instances
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:08 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
200707241846361074434026
Archive entry
200707241846361074434026.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#200707241846361074434026.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707241846361074434026.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016