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Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font.

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Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font.

Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • random circle placement
  • two of text

Dense Caption

Black background filled with red circles of varying sizes. Four instances of the phrase "Go West" appear in white, blocky, pixelated lettering across two rows. The red circles include solid full circles and half-circles; some half-circles are positioned to form partial outlines or segments within larger circle shapes. All text is rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007111111421546180588

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circles black background go west text
  • pixelated go west icon
  • repeated go west text red circles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Visible Text

  • Go West

Wordwall

  • red circles
  • black background
  • Go West text
  • pixelated font
  • half-circles
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007111111421546180588
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 UTC
Archive ID
70f2769065466c91
SHA-256
70f2769065466c91f4f46eb07af20122b5f828bcdc746490221e992b47ecd7b5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089189

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Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,642 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 624

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • repeated text layout
  • random circle placement
  • two of text

Dense Caption

Black background filled with red circles of varying sizes. Four instances of the phrase "Go West" appear in white, blocky, pixelated lettering across two rows. The red circles include solid full circles and half-circles; some half-circles are positioned to form partial outlines or segments within larger circle shapes. All text is rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style.

Description

  • Red circular shapes on black background with repeated 'Go West' text in white pixelated font.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007111111421546180588

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red circles black background go west text
  • pixelated go west icon
  • repeated go west text red circles

Objects

  • red circles
  • black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • Go West

Wordwall

  • red circles
  • black background
  • Go West text
  • pixelated font
  • half-circles
  • repeated text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
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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
2007111111421546180588
Archive entry
2007111111421546180588.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:55 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#2007111111421546180588.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007111111421546180588.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016