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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background.

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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background.

Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top flags
  • middle keyboard strip
  • bottom cursive text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two white-and-black checkered racing flags at top. Below flags: horizontal strip of pixelated keyboard keys (black keys visible). Red diagonal line overlays left side of keyboard strip. Blue vertical stripe overlays right side of keyboard strip. Large red cursive text "Racing" spans bottom portion, with trailing tail extending to lower-right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background.

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

  • checkered flags racing keyboard
  • racing cursive text pixelated
  • red blue black flag keyboard
  • pixelated racing icon

Visible Text

  • Racing

Visually Supported Entities

  • Racing

Wordwall

  • checkered racing flags
  • pixelated keyboard keys
  • red cursive text
  • black background
  • blue vertical stripe
  • red diagonal line

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080725132114451223746
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d258c1bc8035b6067b4ccd8b126debb7e70aedc3cf81068c222626396043c7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
3d258c1bc8035b60
SHA-256
3d258c1bc8035b6067b4ccd8b126debb7e70aedc3cf81068c222626396043c7b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104573

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 554

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cursive text (style, 0.80)
  • diagonal line (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • vertical stripe (style, 0.80)
  • flags (subject, 0.80)
  • keyboard (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • top flags
  • middle keyboard strip
  • bottom cursive text

Dense Caption

Black background. Two white-and-black checkered racing flags at top. Below flags: horizontal strip of pixelated keyboard keys (black keys visible). Red diagonal line overlays left side of keyboard strip. Blue vertical stripe overlays right side of keyboard strip. Large red cursive text "Racing" spans bottom portion, with trailing tail extending to lower-right corner.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard keys, and red cursive text on black background.

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

  • checkered flags racing keyboard
  • racing cursive text pixelated
  • red blue black flag keyboard
  • pixelated racing icon

Objects

  • flags
  • keyboard
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • cursive text
  • diagonal line
  • vertical stripe

Subjects

  • flags
  • keyboard
  • text

Visible Text

  • Racing

Visually Supported Entities

  • Racing

Wordwall

  • checkered racing flags
  • pixelated keyboard keys
  • red cursive text
  • black background
  • blue vertical stripe
  • red diagonal line
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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
20080725132114451223746
Archive entry
20080725132114451223746.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080725132114451223746.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080725132114451223746.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016