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A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right.

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A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right.

A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left emblem
  • right text

Dense Caption

The icon is split vertically into two sections. Left section: blue background with a circular emblem featuring a gold outer ring, a blue inner ring with text, and a red center containing a white and brown eagle, globe, and anchor symbol. Right section: solid red background with black pixelated text "USAM" in a blocky font. The emblem's text is partially visible but unreadable due to pixelation. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right.

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

  • USAM emblem
  • eagle globe anchor
  • blue red split
  • pixelated USAM

Visible Text

  • USAM

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red background
  • circular emblem
  • gold ring
  • eagle globe anchor
  • USAM text
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • red center
  • blue inner ring
  • unreadable text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071121151300497393790
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3ff847794dea07b53df7ad7c49288a0bdb97a3c4064688db68f1f2857c930b6b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
3ff847794dea07b5
SHA-256
3ff847794dea07b53df7ad7c49288a0bdb97a3c4064688db68f1f2857c930b6b
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
0.091499

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:01 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,087 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 583

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • emblem (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • anchor (subject, 0.80)
  • eagle (subject, 0.80)
  • globe (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • gold
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left emblem
  • right text

Dense Caption

The icon is split vertically into two sections. Left section: blue background with a circular emblem featuring a gold outer ring, a blue inner ring with text, and a red center containing a white and brown eagle, globe, and anchor symbol. Right section: solid red background with black pixelated text "USAM" in a blocky font. The emblem's text is partially visible but unreadable due to pixelation. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated icon split into two sections: a blue background with a circular emblem on the left and a red background with text on the right.

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

  • USAM emblem
  • eagle globe anchor
  • blue red split
  • pixelated USAM

Objects

  • emblem

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • eagle
  • globe
  • anchor

Visible Text

  • USAM

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • red background
  • circular emblem
  • gold ring
  • eagle globe anchor
  • USAM text
  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • red center
  • blue inner ring
  • unreadable text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
53
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
20071121151300497393790
Archive entry
20071121151300497393790.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071121151300497393790.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071121151300497393790.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016