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Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text.

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Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text.

Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with identical content across all observations.

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • hearts below text

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text reads 'Vote For' on the top line, 'OBAMA' on the middle line, and ''08' on the bottom line, repeated twice side-by-side. Two green pixelated heart shapes appear below the text, one centered under the left text block and one under the right text block. The background is solid black. The text and hearts are rendered in a retro digital style with blocky pixels. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • vote for obama 08 pixelated
  • green text black background
  • two heart shapes vote for obama
  • retro digital vote for obama 08
  • pixelated vote for obama '08
  • green heart shapes vote for obama
  • vote for obama 08 hearts
  • green pixelated '08 text

Objects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • Vote For
  • OBAMA
  • '08

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • 'Vote For' text
  • 'OBAMA' text
  • ''08' text
  • two heart shapes
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels
  • side-by-side text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810231745221528199708
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
238 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
42e8c85eb2ce1790
SHA-256
42e8c85eb2ce1790402b2ac0bc439f1c7d6af40d905a68cbeb2fb11870e31dc1
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.106274

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Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,798 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 731

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • heart shapes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the image appears static with identical content across all observations.

Colors

  • green
  • black

Composition

  • two side-by-side text blocks
  • hearts below text

Dense Caption

Green pixelated text reads 'Vote For' on the top line, 'OBAMA' on the middle line, and ''08' on the bottom line, repeated twice side-by-side. Two green pixelated heart shapes appear below the text, one centered under the left text block and one under the right text block. The background is solid black. The text and hearts are rendered in a retro digital style with blocky pixels. The image is static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Green pixelated text and heart symbols on black background, displaying 'Vote For OBAMA '08' with two heart shapes below the text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

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  • retro digital vote for obama 08
  • pixelated vote for obama '08
  • green heart shapes vote for obama
  • vote for obama 08 hearts
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  • heart shapes

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital

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  • Vote For
  • OBAMA
  • '08

Wordwall

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  • black background
  • 'Vote For' text
  • 'OBAMA' text
  • ''08' text
  • two heart shapes
  • retro digital style
  • blocky pixels
  • side-by-side text blocks
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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
200810231745221528199708
Archive entry
200810231745221528199708.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810231745221528199708.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810231745221528199708.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016