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A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a pattern with purple text on a cyan background

A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a pattern with purple text on a cyan background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of 12 rows and 2 columns of identical pixelated text. Each cell contains the word 'America' rendered in solid purple, uppercase letters using a blocky, low-resolution font. The background is a uniform cyan color without gradients or patterns. All instances of the text are visually indistinguishable from one another; there are no variations in letter spacing, size, or positioning across any row or column.

Description

  • A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a pattern with purple text on a cyan 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712300929351812057834
  • 20071230092948754914847

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text America
  • repeated America cyan purple blocky font
  • 12 2 America repeated
  • purple 'America' on cyan

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a grid pattern with purple text on a cyan background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 12 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 12 rows 2 columns America repeated
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan background purple text America grid

Visible Text

  • America

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • 'America' repeated
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • no visual variation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712300929351812057834
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071230092948754914847
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/78/78e35b6118f0f36815e78ad2e262ea5e366269f41c09d7b770d7c7f41ca580fb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
78e35b6118f0f368
SHA-256
78e35b6118f0f36815e78ad2e262ea5e366269f41c09d7b770d7c7f41ca580fb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.282304

OpenAI category scores

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A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a pattern with purple text on a cyan background

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:56 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,351 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,158, response 660

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • uniform spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of 12 rows and 2 columns of identical pixelated text. Each cell contains the word 'America' rendered in solid purple, uppercase letters using a blocky, low-resolution font. The background is a uniform cyan color without gradients or patterns. All instances of the text are visually indistinguishable from one another; there are no variations in letter spacing, size, or positioning across any row or column.

Description

  • A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a pattern with purple text on a cyan 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712300929351812057834
  • 20071230092948754914847

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan background purple text America
  • repeated America cyan purple blocky font
  • 12 2 America repeated
  • purple 'America' on cyan

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image displays the word 'America' repeated in a grid pattern with purple text on a cyan background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2 columns
  • quarantined wordwall: 12 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 12 rows 2 columns America repeated
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan background purple text America grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • America

Wordwall

  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • 'America' repeated
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • no visual variation
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Full source records (2)

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
200712300929351812057834
Archive entry
200712300929351812057834.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712300929351812057834.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712300929351812057834.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20071230092948754914847
Archive entry
20071230092948754914847.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071230092948754914847.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071230092948754914847.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016