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Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!". Animated 48×48 GIF AI…

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Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • like arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of pixelated text and shapes on a blue background with red diamond overlays. Text elements include "McCain Rex" in the top-left and top-right corners, "Sox Off!!!" below it, "Obama" beneath that, "sux eggs" further down, and "!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the bottom. The text is rendered in white with a blue outline. Red diamond shapes are scattered across the blue background. The pattern repeats across the entire visible area. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with blocky pixels and limited color palette. No animation is visible in the provided frame.

Description

Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • McCain Rex Sox Off Obama sux eggs
  • Sox Off Obama sux eggs
  • Obama sux eggs
  • sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!
  • McCain Rex Sox Off
  • McCain Rex Sox Off Obama
  • Obama sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Sox Off Obama sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this frame
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Visible Text

  • McCain Rex
  • Sox Off!!!
  • Obama
  • sux eggs
  • !!!!!!!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red diamond shapes
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • "McCain Rex"
  • "Sox Off!!!"
  • "Obama"
  • "sux eggs"
  • "!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • blue outline
  • blocky pixels
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081119175144170800611
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/34/34a6da1bf2b332a6d7ff3ac7ce71b297d4cf91ce27cfc28e03b594a702b3b5c8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
34a6da1bf2b332a6
SHA-256
34a6da1bf2b332a6d7ff3ac7ce71b297d4cf91ce27cfc28e03b594a702b3b5c8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.122092

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,435 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 780

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • satirical (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • repeating pattern
  • like arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a repeating pattern of pixelated text and shapes on a blue background with red diamond overlays. Text elements include "McCain Rex" in the top-left and top-right corners, "Sox Off!!!" below it, "Obama" beneath that, "sux eggs" further down, and "!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the bottom. The text is rendered in white with a blue outline. Red diamond shapes are scattered across the blue background. The pattern repeats across the entire visible area. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with blocky pixels and limited color palette. No animation is visible in the provided frame.

Description

Pixelated text and red diamond shapes on blue background with repeated phrases including "McCain Rex," "Sox Off!!!," "Obama," "sux eggs," and "!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • satirical
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Sox Off Obama sux eggs
  • Obama sux eggs
  • sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!
  • McCain Rex Sox Off
  • McCain Rex Sox Off Obama
  • Obama sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Sox Off Obama sux eggs !!!!!!!!!!!!

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this frame
  • quarantined composition: grid-like arrangement

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • McCain Rex
  • Sox Off!!!
  • Obama
  • sux eggs
  • !!!!!!!!!!!!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red diamond shapes
  • white text
  • pixelated
  • repeating pattern
  • "McCain Rex"
  • "Sox Off!!!"
  • "Obama"
  • "sux eggs"
  • "!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • blue outline
  • blocky pixels
  • limited color palette
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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
20081119175144170800611
Archive entry
20081119175144170800611.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081119175144170800611.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081119175144170800611.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016