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A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left.

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A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left.

A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • top-left star field
  • bottom red section

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated American flag with horizontal black and white stripes. The top-left corner contains a dark star field with small white dots. The bottom section transitions to solid red with black vertical drips. The flag's stripes are unevenly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts. The red section has a jagged, dripping appearance. The overall resolution is low, with distinct pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • american flag pixelated
  • black white red flag
  • jagged red drips
  • star field flag
  • low resolution flag
  • horizontal stripes flag
  • pixelated flag
  • red bottom flag

Wordwall

  • American flag
  • black and white stripes
  • red bottom section
  • dark star field
  • pixelated
  • jagged red drips
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution
  • blocky artifacts
  • white dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901311423412033812865
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
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/67/67dcffd04bc61d9b9f15df51030ee46c33bec5fa668a0aca67e97a2a943a06ea.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
67dcffd04bc61d9b
SHA-256
67dcffd04bc61d9b9f15df51030ee46c33bec5fa668a0aca67e97a2a943a06ea
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071743

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • american flag (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • horizontal stripes
  • top-left star field
  • bottom red section

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated American flag with horizontal black and white stripes. The top-left corner contains a dark star field with small white dots. The bottom section transitions to solid red with black vertical drips. The flag's stripes are unevenly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts. The red section has a jagged, dripping appearance. The overall resolution is low, with distinct pixelation across all elements.

Description

  • A pixelated American flag with black and white stripes and a red bottom section, featuring a dark star field on the left.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • american flag pixelated
  • black white red flag
  • jagged red drips
  • star field flag
  • low resolution flag
  • horizontal stripes flag
  • pixelated flag
  • red bottom flag

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • American flag

Wordwall

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  • black and white stripes
  • red bottom section
  • dark star field
  • pixelated
  • jagged red drips
  • horizontal stripes
  • low resolution
  • blocky artifacts
  • white dots
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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
200901311423412033812865
Archive entry
200901311423412033812865.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#200901311423412033812865.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901311423412033812865.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016