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Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases

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Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases

Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Composition

  • two vertical
  • identical text repetition
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated text on black background. Two identical vertical columns of text. Each column contains: 'GERNADE' in uppercase, 'FREE' in uppercase, 'AMERICA' in uppercase, a single hyphen, 'VINNY' in uppercase, another single hyphen, and 'VINNY' in uppercase. All text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • two vertical
  • GERNADE FREE AMERICA hyphen VINNY
  • retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical columns with identical repeated phrases.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns

Visible Text

  • GERNADE
  • FREE
  • AMERICA
  • -
  • VINNY

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • two vertical
  • GERNADE
  • FREE
  • AMERICA
  • hyphen
  • VINNY
  • retro digital font
  • identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100930145702501929929
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
296 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7e/7efb0fd4ca50681a301b04d11af6aabbef784fb65017f3f9123d9db363c1c43f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
7efb0fd4ca50681a
SHA-256
7efb0fd4ca50681a301b04d11af6aabbef784fb65017f3f9123d9db363c1c43f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
1089
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076093

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,070 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 671

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical
  • identical text repetition
  • centered alignment

Dense Caption

Blue pixelated text on black background. Two identical vertical columns of text. Each column contains: 'GERNADE' in uppercase, 'FREE' in uppercase, 'AMERICA' in uppercase, a single hyphen, 'VINNY' in uppercase, another single hyphen, and 'VINNY' in uppercase. All text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical with identical repeated phrases

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • two vertical
  • GERNADE FREE AMERICA hyphen VINNY
  • retro digital font

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue pixelated text on black background arranged in two vertical columns with identical repeated phrases.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical columns
  • quarantined wordwall: two vertical columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two vertical columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • GERNADE
  • FREE
  • AMERICA
  • -
  • VINNY

Wordwall

  • blue pixelated text
  • black background
  • two vertical
  • GERNADE
  • FREE
  • AMERICA
  • hyphen
  • VINNY
  • retro digital font
  • identical
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20100930145702501929929
Archive entry
20100930145702501929929.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100930145702501929929.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100930145702501929929.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016