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A static digital image with orange and black pixelated patterns and repeated white text "pacers" across the composition.

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A static digital image with orange and black pixelated patterns and repeated white text "pacers" across the composition.

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Source terms

Composition

  • four of text
  • varied orange patterns
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black background overlaid with orange pixelated patterns including horizontal lines, solid squares, and checkerboard arrangements. White text reading "pacers" appears in four horizontal rows across the image. The text is rendered in a pixelated font consistent with early digital graphics. Orange patterns vary in density and arrangement across the composition, with some sections showing solid orange squares, others showing alternating orange and black squares in a checkerboard pattern, and some sections displaying horizontal orange lines. The patterns and text repeat across the image without visible animation or motion.

Description

  • A static digital image with orange and black pixelated patterns and repeated white text "pacers" across the composition.

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

  • pacers orange black pixel art
  • orange pixel patterns black background
  • repeated pacers text pixel art
  • pixelated pacers text orange squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: four rows of text

Visible Text

  • pacers

Wordwall

  • orange and black pixelated patterns
  • white text "pacers"
  • four of text
  • horizontal lines
  • solid squares
  • checkerboard arrangement
  • pixelated font
  • repeated patterns
  • black background
  • orange squares

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820182409379362494
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c1c785c111931d453e81a7ec1c3900e3778e3e03b6043e404591ee16b6b56fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
4c1c785c111931d4
SHA-256
4c1c785c111931d453e81a7ec1c3900e3778e3e03b6043e404591ee16b6b56fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087338

OpenAI category scores

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

A static digital image with orange and black pixelated patterns and repeated white text "pacers" across the composition.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,500 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,126, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • white

Composition

  • four of text
  • varied orange patterns
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image consists of a black background overlaid with orange pixelated patterns including horizontal lines, solid squares, and checkerboard arrangements. White text reading "pacers" appears in four horizontal rows across the image. The text is rendered in a pixelated font consistent with early digital graphics. Orange patterns vary in density and arrangement across the composition, with some sections showing solid orange squares, others showing alternating orange and black squares in a checkerboard pattern, and some sections displaying horizontal orange lines. The patterns and text repeat across the image without visible animation or motion.

Description

  • A static digital image with orange and black pixelated patterns and repeated white text "pacers" across the composition.

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

  • pacers orange black pixel art
  • orange pixel patterns black background
  • repeated pacers text pixel art
  • pixelated pacers text orange squares

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four rows of text
  • quarantined composition: four rows of text

Style

  • pixel art
  • digital graphics
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • pacers

Wordwall

  • orange and black pixelated patterns
  • white text "pacers"
  • four of text
  • horizontal lines
  • solid squares
  • checkerboard arrangement
  • pixelated font
  • repeated patterns
  • black background
  • orange squares
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070820182409379362494
Archive entry
20070820182409379362494.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070820182409379362494.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820182409379362494.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016