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Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area.

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Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area.

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Composition

  • four icons in
  • text centered on icons
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a blue background with a red 'C' symbol. The top-left icon contains white pixelated text 'lives better'. The top-right icon contains white pixelated text 'as a cubs fan'. The bottom-left icon contains white pixelated text 'face it'. The bottom-right area is a solid gray rectangle. All icons have a glossy, rounded appearance with a slight 3D effect. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cubs fan text
  • circular blue icons
  • red C symbols
  • pixelated text
  • lives better face it
  • as a cubs fan
  • gray rectangle
  • icons

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four icons in grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid icons

Visible Text

  • lives better
  • as a cubs fan
  • face it

Wordwall

  • circular blue icons
  • red 'C' symbols
  • white pixelated text
  • lives better
  • as a cubs fan
  • face it
  • glossy rounded appearance
  • solid gray rectangle
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070727101103831719468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d8/d84bd109705ca795baf2229113ff3095b40239e25d8386d0b6b8b5343dfc394e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
d84bd109705ca795
SHA-256
d84bd109705ca795baf2229113ff3095b40239e25d8386d0b6b8b5343dfc394e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
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Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072478

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

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,863 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 763

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blue backgrounds (object, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • red c symbols (object, 0.80)
  • glossy (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • rounded (style, 0.80)
  • circular icons (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four icons in
  • text centered on icons
  • gray rectangle in bottom-right

Dense Caption

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols are arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon has a blue background with a red 'C' symbol. The top-left icon contains white pixelated text 'lives better'. The top-right icon contains white pixelated text 'as a cubs fan'. The bottom-left icon contains white pixelated text 'face it'. The bottom-right area is a solid gray rectangle. All icons have a glossy, rounded appearance with a slight 3D effect. The text is rendered in a pixelated font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

Four circular blue icons with red 'C' symbols, each containing white pixelated text: 'lives better', 'as a cubs fan', 'face it', and a grayed-out area.

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

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  • circular blue icons
  • red C symbols
  • pixelated text
  • lives better face it
  • as a cubs fan
  • gray rectangle
  • icons

Objects

  • red 'C' symbols
  • blue backgrounds
  • gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four icons in grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • glossy
  • rounded

Subjects

  • circular icons
  • text

Visible Text

  • lives better
  • as a cubs fan
  • face it

Wordwall

  • circular blue icons
  • red 'C' symbols
  • white pixelated text
  • lives better
  • as a cubs fan
  • face it
  • glossy rounded appearance
  • solid gray rectangle
  • pixelated font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:27 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
20070727101103831719468
Archive entry
20070727101103831719468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070727101103831719468.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070727101103831719468.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016