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Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states.

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Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states.

Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Animation Summary

  • The white pixelated corner shapes alternate between two configurations while the text remains static.

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • central text block

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background with bold black text stating 'support the roaches!' arranged in three lines. Four corner positions contain white pixelated geometric shapes that alternate between two distinct configurations across observations: top-left and bottom-right show stacked squares with dots, while top-right and bottom-left display connected square outlines with dots. The text remains static throughout all observed states.

Description

  • Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090203144642707047033

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • support the roaches red background
  • pixel art support the roaches
  • red background black text white corners
  • four-corner pixel art animation

Visible Text

  • support the roaches!

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text 'support the roaches!'
  • white pixelated corner shapes
  • two alternating shape configurations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090203144642707047033
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
46369fc69ac8da1e
SHA-256
46369fc69ac8da1e3d5e6809ba628286630660c7610c81aaa8d89124276dcdf1
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 21:16 UTC
Run
1295
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.001265

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July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
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Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,223 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 554

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • ironic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static animation (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • The white pixelated corner shapes alternate between two configurations while the text remains static.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four-corner layout
  • central text block

Dense Caption

The image displays a red background with bold black text stating 'support the roaches!' arranged in three lines. Four corner positions contain white pixelated geometric shapes that alternate between two distinct configurations across observations: top-left and bottom-right show stacked squares with dots, while top-right and bottom-left display connected square outlines with dots. The text remains static throughout all observed states.

Description

  • Red background with black text reading 'support the roaches!' and white pixelated shapes in four corners, alternating between two states.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090203144642707047033

Mood

  • playful
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixel art support the roaches
  • red background black text white corners
  • four-corner pixel art animation

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static animation

Visible Text

  • support the roaches!

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text 'support the roaches!'
  • white pixelated corner shapes
  • two alternating shape configurations
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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
20090203144642707047033
Archive entry
20090203144642707047033.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090203144642707047033.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090203144642707047033.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016