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Red pixelated text on black background with white and gray crowd silhouettes below.

Red pixelated text on black background with white and gray crowd silhouettes below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text band above crowd silhouette band

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: top line reads 'ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER', middle lines read 'TRACK' twice, bottom lines read '2008' twice. Below text is a horizontal band of white and gray pixelated crowd silhouettes with raised hands; some figures have distinct shapes including circular heads and blocky bodies. Text uses 8-bit style font.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white and gray crowd silhouettes below.

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

  • 2008 crowd silhouettes
  • red pixelated text 2008
  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER track

Visible Text

  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER
  • TRACK
  • 2008

Visually Supported Entities

  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white and gray crowd silhouettes
  • raised hands
  • 8-bit style font
  • repeated 'TRACK' text
  • repeated '2008' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805031356331821419528
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
714 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/1497fa6fe907460776c4e82bb0c574c555f5b23fc891f128b6c9bcf32fb75354.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
1497fa6fe9074607
SHA-256
1497fa6fe907460776c4e82bb0c574c555f5b23fc891f128b6c9bcf32fb75354
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094916

OpenAI category scores

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Red pixelated text on black background with white and gray crowd silhouettes below.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 11:35 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,462 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 593

Review tags

  • raised hands (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • celebratory (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • crowd silhouettes (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raised hands

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal text band above crowd silhouette band

Dense Caption

Black background displays red pixelated text: top line reads 'ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER', middle lines read 'TRACK' twice, bottom lines read '2008' twice. Below text is a horizontal band of white and gray pixelated crowd silhouettes with raised hands; some figures have distinct shapes including circular heads and blocky bodies. Text uses 8-bit style font.

Description

  • Red pixelated text on black background with white and gray crowd silhouettes below.

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

  • celebratory

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • 2008 crowd silhouettes
  • red pixelated text 2008
  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER track

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • crowd silhouettes

Visible Text

  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER
  • TRACK
  • 2008

Visually Supported Entities

  • ST.ALEXANDEET.ALEXANDER

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • white and gray crowd silhouettes
  • raised hands
  • 8-bit style font
  • repeated 'TRACK' text
  • repeated '2008' text
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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
200805031356331821419528
Archive entry
200805031356331821419528.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805031356331821419528.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805031356331821419528.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016