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Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical

Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • vertical stacks of asterisks
  • repeated text 'spence.'

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated text 'spence.' appears multiple times across the image. Vertical stacks of white asterisks vary in height: single asterisk on left, two asterisks center-left, three asterisks right-center, four asterisks left-middle, five asterisks center, six asterisks right-middle, seven asterisks bottom-left, and two asterisks bottom-center. A gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical

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

  • red background white text spence asterisks
  • spence. red gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical columns.

Visible Text

  • spence.

Visually Supported Entities

  • spence.

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text 'spence.'
  • asterisk stacks
  • gray rectangle
  • vertical arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071008113610553516680
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
342 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/06/069c97a2267eac7690aa3b27df3c7b047a9ea15d0754219d10f954d1b4466873.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
069c97a2267eac76
SHA-256
069c97a2267eac7690aa3b27df3c7b047a9ea15d0754219d10f954d1b4466873
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127053

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:24 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,469 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 550

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • asterisks (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical stacks of asterisks
  • repeated text 'spence.'

Dense Caption

Solid red background. White pixelated text 'spence.' appears multiple times across the image. Vertical stacks of white asterisks vary in height: single asterisk on left, two asterisks center-left, three asterisks right-center, four asterisks left-middle, five asterisks center, six asterisks right-middle, seven asterisks bottom-left, and two asterisks bottom-center. A gray rectangular shape occupies the bottom-right corner.

Description

  • Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text spence asterisks
  • spence. red gray rectangle

Objects

  • asterisks

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with white text 'spence.' and varying numbers of white asterisks arranged in vertical columns.

Style

  • pixelated
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • text
  • asterisks

Visible Text

  • spence.

Visually Supported Entities

  • spence.

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white text 'spence.'
  • asterisk stacks
  • gray rectangle
  • vertical arrangement
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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
20071008113610553516680
Archive entry
20071008113610553516680.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071008113610553516680.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071008113610553516680.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016