Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage.

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Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage.

Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all quadrants remain static with no motion or frame transitions observed.

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: bright green background with black-and-white pixelated text 'Cotton Swabs!' on two lines, followed by 'xD' below it; the letter 'o' in 'Cotton' has a missing segment. Bottom-left quadrant: close-up of white cotton swab tips and blurred green foliage. Top-right quadrant: dense cluster of white round cotton swab tips. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background. All quadrants are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080119175525928758267

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cotton swabs xD
  • green background cotton swabs
  • pixelated text cotton swabs
  • four quadrant cotton swab image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Cotton
  • Swabs!
  • xD

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pixelated text 'Cotton Swabs! xD'
  • white cotton swab tips
  • blurred green foliage
  • solid light gray background

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080119175525928758267
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/baaee5c95ab2153e4a6caa71635431998fab75a75b8351d2403752176d65e0b4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
baaee5c95ab2153e
SHA-256
baaee5c95ab2153e4a6caa71635431998fab75a75b8351d2403752176d65e0b4
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 24, 2026 at 20:56 UTC
Run
1336
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002764

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:37 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,529 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 606

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • close up photography (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • cotton swabs (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all quadrants remain static with no motion or frame transitions observed.

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: bright green background with black-and-white pixelated text 'Cotton Swabs!' on two lines, followed by 'xD' below it; the letter 'o' in 'Cotton' has a missing segment. Bottom-left quadrant: close-up of white cotton swab tips and blurred green foliage. Top-right quadrant: dense cluster of white round cotton swab tips. Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background. All quadrants are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text reading Cotton Swabs! xD above a close-up of white cotton swab tips and green foliage.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080119175525928758267

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cotton swabs xD
  • green background cotton swabs
  • pixelated text cotton swabs
  • four quadrant cotton swab image

Objects

  • cotton swabs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated text
  • close-up photography

Subjects

  • cotton swabs

Visible Text

  • Cotton
  • Swabs!
  • xD

Wordwall

  • green background
  • pixelated text 'Cotton Swabs! xD'
  • white cotton swab tips
  • blurred green foliage
  • solid light gray 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
20080119175525928758267
Archive entry
20080119175525928758267.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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