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Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections.

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Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections.

Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four sections
  • rotated
  • diamond
  • distorted

Dense Caption

The image displays a red and black checkered pattern with four distinct sections. Each section contains the word 'skate' in white pixelated text. The top-left section shows a standard grid of red and black squares. The top-right section features a rotated grid of red and black squares. The bottom-left section presents a diamond-shaped pattern of red and black squares. The bottom-right section shows a distorted grid of red and black squares. All sections have the word 'skate' in white pixelated text.

Description

  • Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections.

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 black checkered skate
  • skate pixelated text
  • four skate sections
  • rotated diamond distorted

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right distorted grid
  • quarantined wordwall: top-right rotated grid
  • quarantined wordwall: top-left grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: rotated diamond distorted grid

Visible Text

  • skate

Wordwall

  • red and black checkered pattern
  • four instances of 'skate'
  • white pixelated text
  • top-left
  • top-right rotated
  • bottom-left diamond pattern
  • bottom-right distorted

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807281556261661703593
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
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a4f12c42d6252695e925279b3610df90f95e8b3ca2d468c4ad6eb8e98e534fd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
4a4f12c42d625269
SHA-256
4a4f12c42d6252695e925279b3610df90f95e8b3ca2d468c4ad6eb8e98e534fd
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 20:34 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001205

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:29 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.213233

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,016 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 668

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered (style, 0.80)
  • diamond (style, 0.80)
  • distorted (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four sections
  • rotated
  • diamond
  • distorted

Dense Caption

The image displays a red and black checkered pattern with four distinct sections. Each section contains the word 'skate' in white pixelated text. The top-left section shows a standard grid of red and black squares. The top-right section features a rotated grid of red and black squares. The bottom-left section presents a diamond-shaped pattern of red and black squares. The bottom-right section shows a distorted grid of red and black squares. All sections have the word 'skate' in white pixelated text.

Description

  • Red and black checkered pattern with four instances of the word 'skate' in white pixelated text across different sections.

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 black checkered skate
  • skate pixelated text
  • four skate sections
  • rotated diamond distorted

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: bottom-right distorted grid
  • quarantined wordwall: top-right rotated grid
  • quarantined wordwall: top-left grid
  • quarantined composition: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: rotated diamond distorted grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • checkered
  • diamond
  • distorted

Visible Text

  • skate

Wordwall

  • red and black checkered pattern
  • four instances of 'skate'
  • white pixelated text
  • top-left
  • top-right rotated
  • bottom-left diamond pattern
  • bottom-right distorted
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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
200807281556261661703593
Archive entry
200807281556261661703593.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#200807281556261661703593.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807281556261661703593.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016