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American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black.

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American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black.

American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split composition of flag and peace symbol.

Composition

  • split vertical

Dense Caption

American flag with stars and stripes visible in background. Red rectangular text boxes with white text: "McCain" on top, "2008" below. Right side features a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black background. Pixelated rendering style. No visible motion or animation changes. Text is fully legible. Colors include red, white, blue, and black. Composition is split vertically with flag on left and peace symbol on right.

Description

  • American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black.

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

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • McCain
  • 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • McCain 2008 peace symbol
  • American flag peace symbol
  • 2008 McCain flag
  • peace symbol red white blue
  • McCain 2008 flag
  • peace symbol 2008
  • McCain flag peace symbol
  • 2008 peace symbol flag

Visible Text

  • McCain
  • 2008

Wordwall

  • American flag
  • "McCain" text
  • "2008" text
  • peace symbol
  • red white blue stripes
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • split composition
  • text boxes
  • legible text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811041917491951489675
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4d/4d35e582b0bd69710346945aaf12ac40bd697120fad94eedc838e26547bdfa97.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
4d35e582b0bd6971
SHA-256
4d35e582b0bd69710346945aaf12ac40bd697120fad94eedc838e26547bdfa97
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000041

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 18:27 UTC
Run
1249
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:17 UTC
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American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,942 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 589

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text boxes (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • american flag (subject, 0.80)
  • peace symbol (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split composition of flag and peace symbol.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • split vertical

Dense Caption

American flag with stars and stripes visible in background. Red rectangular text boxes with white text: "McCain" on top, "2008" below. Right side features a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black background. Pixelated rendering style. No visible motion or animation changes. Text is fully legible. Colors include red, white, blue, and black. Composition is split vertically with flag on left and peace symbol on right.

Description

  • American flag background with "McCain 2008" text and a peace symbol with red, white, and blue stripes on black.

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

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • McCain
  • 2008

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • McCain 2008 peace symbol
  • American flag peace symbol
  • 2008 McCain flag
  • peace symbol red white blue
  • McCain 2008 flag
  • peace symbol 2008
  • McCain flag peace symbol
  • 2008 peace symbol flag

Objects

  • text boxes

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • American flag
  • peace symbol

Visible Text

  • McCain
  • 2008

Wordwall

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  • "McCain" text
  • "2008" text
  • peace symbol
  • red white blue stripes
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • split composition
  • text boxes
  • legible text
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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
200811041917491951489675
Archive entry
200811041917491951489675.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811041917491951489675.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811041917491951489675.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016