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Black background with white pixelated text "New Era" repeated across six positions, separated by horizontal light bars.

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two
  • horizontal spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Six instances of the phrase "New Era" rendered in blocky white pixels on a solid black background. The text appears in two rows: three instances in the top row and three in the bottom row. Each instance is horizontally aligned with its counterpart in the opposite row, separated by thin horizontal light bars that span the width between adjacent text elements. All six "New Era" texts are identical in font style and spacing.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "New Era" repeated across six positions, separated by horizontal light bars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801151547181761808048

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "New Era" pixel art
  • six "New Era" texts
  • black background white text
  • monochrome text repetition

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of three
  • quarantined composition: two-row grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black background white text grid

Visible Text

  • New Era

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "New Era" phrase
  • six repetitions
  • two of three
  • horizontal light bars

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801151547181761808048
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 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 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
0d3ebf8792cec0f2
SHA-256
0d3ebf8792cec0f222c306e37af44728a79cb8814119acf81bba5db812ffa4ea
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104472

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white pixelated text "New Era" repeated across six positions, separated by horizontal light bars.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,407 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • two
  • horizontal spacing between elements

Dense Caption

Six instances of the phrase "New Era" rendered in blocky white pixels on a solid black background. The text appears in two rows: three instances in the top row and three in the bottom row. Each instance is horizontally aligned with its counterpart in the opposite row, separated by thin horizontal light bars that span the width between adjacent text elements. All six "New Era" texts are identical in font style and spacing.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text "New Era" repeated across six positions, separated by horizontal light bars.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801151547181761808048

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "New Era" pixel art
  • six "New Era" texts
  • black background white text
  • monochrome text repetition

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two rows of three
  • quarantined composition: two-row grid
  • quarantined retrieval: black background white text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • New Era

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • "New Era" phrase
  • six repetitions
  • two of three
  • horizontal light bars
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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
200801151547181761808048
Archive entry
200801151547181761808048.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801151547181761808048.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801151547181761808048.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016