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Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom.

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Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom.

Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation changes observed

Composition

  • text bands at top and bottom
  • symmetrical border elements

Dense Caption

Red background with white dashed borders forming a grid. White asterisk symbols at corners and midpoints of grid lines. Black text 'am the rub' repeated horizontally at top and bottom edges. White dashed lines form vertical and horizontal grid divisions. No visible animation changes. Text is pixelated and partially obscured. White asterisk symbols are positioned at four corners and four midpoints of the grid's horizontal and vertical lines. The grid consists of vertical and horizontal dashed white lines. The background is solid red. The text 'am the rub' appears in two horizontal bands, one at the top and one at the bottom. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The text is partially obscured by the grid lines. The grid lines are composed of short white dashes. The grid divides the image into four quadrants. The image has no visible motion or animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is static with no animation. The text is black. The background is red. The grid lines are white. The asterisk symbols are white. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am theundertext' is not visible. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is

Description

  • Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom.

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

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  • am the rub repeated text
  • pixelated text
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  • text am the rub repeated
  • am the rub pixelated text
  • red white borders black text

Preprocessing Notes

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Visible Text

  • am the rub

Wordwall

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  • text 'am the rub' is at top and bottom
  • text 'am the rub' is partially obscured

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008122204110648434108
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
403 bytes
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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7299c2d81c931c71
SHA-256
7299c2d81c931c71230bd4e86d22ba5db67316c8be5d3981e26246bf5f2ed486
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:36 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121143

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,941 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 1,190

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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Animation Summary

  • no animation changes observed

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text bands at top and bottom
  • symmetrical border elements

Dense Caption

Red background with white dashed borders forming a grid. White asterisk symbols at corners and midpoints of grid lines. Black text 'am the rub' repeated horizontally at top and bottom edges. White dashed lines form vertical and horizontal grid divisions. No visible animation changes. Text is pixelated and partially obscured. White asterisk symbols are positioned at four corners and four midpoints of the grid's horizontal and vertical lines. The grid consists of vertical and horizontal dashed white lines. The background is solid red. The text 'am the rub' appears in two horizontal bands, one at the top and one at the bottom. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The text is partially obscured by the grid lines. The grid lines are composed of short white dashes. The grid divides the image into four quadrants. The image has no visible motion or animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is static with no animation. The text is black. The background is red. The grid lines are white. The asterisk symbols are white. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am theundertext' is not visible. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is a static icon with no animation. The text 'am the rub' is repeated twice. The image is

Description

  • Red background with white dashed borders and asterisk symbols, featuring repeated black text 'am the rub' at top and bottom.

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

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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
2008122204110648434108
Archive entry
2008122204110648434108.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#2008122204110648434108.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008122204110648434108.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016