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A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown.

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A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown.

A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Mood

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Composition

  • square crop
  • text positioned around central figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D digital artwork shows a soldier wearing a helmet and military uniform, holding a rifle. The soldier stands before a bright orange fire background. Green pixelated text reads 'The' at top right, 'US' at bottom left, and 'Army' at bottom right on a solid brown background. The image has low resolution with visible dithering.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soldier rifle fire background
  • US Army pixel art
  • green text brown background
  • military uniform soldier

Visible Text

  • The
  • US
  • Army

Visually Supported Entities

  • US Army

Wordwall

  • soldier
  • helmet
  • military uniform
  • rifle
  • fire background
  • green text
  • brown background
  • pixelated

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080518150700366928593
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7ba630a99e712a971a3be65418575d2854b6dbeac8d999148778d8bfc3331c1f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
7ba630a99e712a97
SHA-256
7ba630a99e712a971a3be65418575d2854b6dbeac8d999148778d8bfc3331c1f
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023104

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:35 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,212 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 553

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • military (mood, 0.80)
  • serious (mood, 0.80)
  • rifle (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • soldier (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • brown
  • green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • square crop
  • text positioned around central figure

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D digital artwork shows a soldier wearing a helmet and military uniform, holding a rifle. The soldier stands before a bright orange fire background. Green pixelated text reads 'The' at top right, 'US' at bottom left, and 'Army' at bottom right on a solid brown background. The image has low resolution with visible dithering.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a soldier in uniform holding a rifle against an orange fire background with green text reading 'The US Army' on brown.

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

Mood

  • serious
  • military

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soldier rifle fire background
  • US Army pixel art
  • green text brown background
  • military uniform soldier

Objects

  • rifle

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • soldier

Visible Text

  • The
  • US
  • Army

Visually Supported Entities

  • US Army

Wordwall

  • soldier
  • helmet
  • military uniform
  • rifle
  • fire background
  • green text
  • brown background
  • pixelated
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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
20080518150700366928593
Archive entry
20080518150700366928593.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080518150700366928593.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080518150700366928593.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016