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Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout.

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Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout.

Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four icons display identical static content.

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon features a yellow concentric ring pattern with three distinct text elements: "sugar" in blue sans-serif font at the top, "chick" in blue sans-serif font below it, "xox" in blue sans-serif font beneath that, and "<3" in blue sans-serif font at the bottom. The text is centered within the yellow rings. All four icons display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sugar chick xox <3
  • blue background yellow rings
  • stacked text buddy icon
  • affectionate text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • sugar
  • chick
  • xox
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow concentric rings
  • sugar text
  • chick text
  • xox text
  • <3 text
  • stacked text layout
  • identical icons
  • blue sans-serif font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707232020241405291054
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d016b4871ef3b0bc9c1ce603d209c59d5b23ac06001a8b3140e758d2d62e7b77.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
d016b4871ef3b0bc
SHA-256
d016b4871ef3b0bc9c1ce603d209c59d5b23ac06001a8b3140e758d2d62e7b77
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081130

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 13:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,115 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 685

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; all four icons display identical static content.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical circular icons arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. Each icon features a yellow concentric ring pattern with three distinct text elements: "sugar" in blue sans-serif font at the top, "chick" in blue sans-serif font below it, "xox" in blue sans-serif font beneath that, and "<3" in blue sans-serif font at the bottom. The text is centered within the yellow rings. All four icons display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical circular icons with yellow rings on a blue background, each containing blue text "sugar chick xox <3" in a stacked layout.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sugar chick xox <3
  • blue background yellow rings
  • stacked text buddy icon
  • affectionate text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • sugar
  • chick
  • xox
  • <3

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • yellow concentric rings
  • sugar text
  • chick text
  • xox text
  • <3 text
  • stacked text layout
  • identical icons
  • blue sans-serif font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:03 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707232020241405291054
Archive entry
200707232020241405291054.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#200707232020241405291054.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707232020241405291054.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016