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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black background.

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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black background.

Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • flags top
  • keyboard middle
  • text bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with two checkered flags (white and black squares) at top. Below flags, a white-bordered rectangle contains a black keyboard with white keys. Red and blue pixelated shapes overlay the keyboard. Below the rectangle, red pixelated text reads "Racing" with a trailing red line. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • checkered flags racing keyboard
  • pixel art racing icon
  • red blue racing text
  • black background racing icon

Visible Text

  • Racing

Wordwall

  • checkered flags
  • black background
  • white keyboard
  • red text
  • blue overlay
  • pixel art
  • trailing line
  • black keyboard keys
  • white border
  • red overlay

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807251320242033813878
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
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d2c3f2c02e12e2c6c4bb06ad96beed0572c4df3f96b9e322246c4eccca5bad8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
4d2c3f2c02e12e2c
SHA-256
4d2c3f2c02e12e2c6c4bb06ad96beed0572c4df3f96b9e322246c4eccca5bad8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090057

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,265 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 553

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • flags (subject, 0.80)
  • keyboard (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • flags top
  • keyboard middle
  • text bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with two checkered flags (white and black squares) at top. Below flags, a white-bordered rectangle contains a black keyboard with white keys. Red and blue pixelated shapes overlay the keyboard. Below the rectangle, red pixelated text reads "Racing" with a trailing red line. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated icon with checkered flags, keyboard, and red/blue text on black 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • checkered flags racing keyboard
  • pixel art racing icon
  • red blue racing text
  • black background racing icon

Objects

  • flags
  • keyboard
  • text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • flags
  • keyboard
  • text

Visible Text

  • Racing

Wordwall

  • checkered flags
  • black background
  • white keyboard
  • red text
  • blue overlay
  • pixel art
  • trailing line
  • black keyboard keys
  • white border
  • red overlay
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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
200807251320242033813878
Archive entry
200807251320242033813878.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#200807251320242033813878.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807251320242033813878.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016