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Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white background.

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Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white background.

Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • bars spanning full height
  • white background with speckles

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading 'raising the bar' in two lines: 'raising' on the top line and 'the bar' on the bottom line. The text is overlaid on a background of vertical blue bars of varying heights, with the tallest bar on the right. The background behind the bars is white with faint light blue and pink pixelated speckles. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • raising the bar pixelated text
  • blue vertical bars white background
  • pixelated text blue bars
  • low-resolution bar graph text

Visible Text

  • raising
  • the bar

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • raising the bar
  • blue vertical bars
  • white background
  • faint speckles
  • low-resolution
  • two lines of text
  • varying bar heights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080724120138360406610
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
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42d2ed03cfcadc7c76151a36221f25ee955011d872843a38dfb09d1930aa580a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
42d2ed03cfcadc7c
SHA-256
42d2ed03cfcadc7c76151a36221f25ee955011d872843a38dfb09d1930aa580a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118499

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.881501onnx/unsafe0.118499onnx/nsfw0.082296onnx/nsfl0.036203
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Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,231 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 656

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blue vertical bars (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text over bar graph (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • blue
  • white
  • light blue
  • pink

Composition

  • text centered horizontally
  • bars spanning full height
  • white background with speckles

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading 'raising the bar' in two lines: 'raising' on the top line and 'the bar' on the bottom line. The text is overlaid on a background of vertical blue bars of varying heights, with the tallest bar on the right. The background behind the bars is white with faint light blue and pink pixelated speckles. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'raising the bar' overlaid on blue vertical bars against a white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • raising the bar pixelated text
  • blue vertical bars white background
  • pixelated text blue bars
  • low-resolution bar graph text

Objects

  • blue vertical bars

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-over-bar-graph

Visible Text

  • raising
  • the bar

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • raising the bar
  • blue vertical bars
  • white background
  • faint speckles
  • low-resolution
  • two lines of text
  • varying bar heights
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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
20080724120138360406610
Archive entry
20080724120138360406610.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#20080724120138360406610.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080724120138360406610.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016