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Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames.

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Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames.

Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical text placement
  • flames surrounding bottom text

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' in two identical horizontal positions at the top. Black pixelated text 'FREAK' in two identical horizontal positions at the bottom. White pixelated flame shapes surrounding the 'FREAK' text, extending upward from the bottom edge. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or symbols beyond the text and flames.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background sports freak flames
  • sports freak pixel art
  • two sports text flames
  • freak text red background
  • pixelated sports flames
  • red background white flames
  • sports text white flames
  • freak text white flames

Visible Text

  • SPORTS
  • FREAK

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • SPORTS text
  • FREAK text
  • white pixelated flames
  • two identical SPORTS
  • two identical FREAK
  • blocky pixel art style
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070823154023533723823
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3faadded7933f3fdc9afde394916915df9ae7b9ceecc00987d3b5becdf7bab0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
3faadded7933f3fd
SHA-256
3faadded7933f3fdc9afde394916915df9ae7b9ceecc00987d3b5becdf7bab0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093993

OpenAI category scores

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

Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,534 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,132, response 674

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal text layout
  • symmetrical text placement
  • flames surrounding bottom text

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' in two identical horizontal positions at the top. Black pixelated text 'FREAK' in two identical horizontal positions at the bottom. White pixelated flame shapes surrounding the 'FREAK' text, extending upward from the bottom edge. All elements are static with no visible animation changes. Text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. The image contains no additional subjects, objects, or symbols beyond the text and flames.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text 'SPORTS' at top and 'FREAK' at bottom, surrounded by white pixelated flames.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background sports freak flames
  • sports freak pixel art
  • two sports text flames
  • freak text red background
  • pixelated sports flames
  • red background white flames
  • sports text white flames
  • freak text white flames

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • SPORTS
  • FREAK

Wordwall

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  • black pixelated text
  • SPORTS text
  • FREAK text
  • white pixelated flames
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  • two identical FREAK
  • blocky pixel art style
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:48 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070823154023533723823
Archive entry
20070823154023533723823.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070823154023533723823.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070823154023533723823.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016