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Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements

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Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements

Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating background

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of panels containing red pixelated text 'SARANG' on black and white backgrounds. There are six panels with black backgrounds showing 'SARANG' in red, and three panels with white backgrounds showing 'SARANG' in red. The panels are arranged in a 3x3 grid with the top-right, middle-left, and bottom-right panels having white backgrounds. The text 'SARANG' is consistently rendered in a blocky, pixelated style across all panels. The white background panels have a light beige color. The text is centered within each panel. The overall composition is a static grid of text panels with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements

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

  • SARANG pixelated text
  • red text on black and white
  • SARANG
  • SARANG text
  • pixelated SARANG
  • SARANG red text
  • SARANG black and white

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple panels on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements.
  • quarantined wordwall: three white panels
  • quarantined wordwall: six black panels
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: alternating background panels
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SARANG grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated SARANG grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SARANG text panels
  • quarantined retrieval: grid of SARANG panels

Visible Text

  • SARANG

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • SARANG
  • black background
  • white background
  • blocky font
  • six black
  • three white
  • centered text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201012091049311197072588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
539 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3c/3c4be143f543d090a160992f7a009875362019b77a9c5756a6c572d12c79acb5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
3c4be143f543d090
SHA-256
3c4be143f543d090a160992f7a009875362019b77a9c5756a6c572d12c79acb5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.131374

OpenAI category scores

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

Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:21 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,899 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 765

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • beige

Composition

  • centered text
  • alternating background

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of panels containing red pixelated text 'SARANG' on black and white backgrounds. There are six panels with black backgrounds showing 'SARANG' in red, and three panels with white backgrounds showing 'SARANG' in red. The panels are arranged in a 3x3 grid with the top-right, middle-left, and bottom-right panels having white backgrounds. The text 'SARANG' is consistently rendered in a blocky, pixelated style across all panels. The white background panels have a light beige color. The text is centered within each panel. The overall composition is a static grid of text panels with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements

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

  • SARANG pixelated text
  • red text on black and white
  • SARANG
  • SARANG text
  • pixelated SARANG
  • SARANG red text
  • SARANG black and white

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red pixelated text 'SARANG' repeated across multiple panels on black and white backgrounds with varying arrangements.
  • quarantined wordwall: three white panels
  • quarantined wordwall: six black panels
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: alternating background panels
  • quarantined composition: 3x3 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SARANG grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated SARANG grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SARANG text panels
  • quarantined retrieval: grid of SARANG panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • SARANG

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • SARANG
  • black background
  • white background
  • blocky font
  • six black
  • three white
  • centered text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201012091049311197072588
Archive entry
201012091049311197072588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201012091049311197072588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201012091049311197072588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016