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A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter.

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A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter.

A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text on a red background.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • arch centered
  • text around arch

Dense Caption

The image features a solid dark red background. A golden arch spans the center horizontally, with vertical sides curving inward at the bottom. The arch has a gradient from bright yellow at the top to orange at the bottom. Black pixelated text reading 'TICK' repeats four times along the top edge of the arch and four times along the bottom edge of the arch. The text is positioned symmetrically around the arch's perimeter. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter.

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

  • red background golden arch tick text
  • tick text repeated golden arch
  • retro digital tick arch red
  • symmetrical tick arch red background

Visible Text

  • TICK

Wordwall

  • red background
  • golden arch
  • black pixelated text
  • TICK repeated
  • symmetrical layout
  • retro digital style
  • solid color background
  • gradient arch

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070810173027788666179
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/80bb27cbf785cfbda482009672bd56d46f54d1cb9e3e60db3f8e975165691f96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
80bb27cbf785cfbd
SHA-256
80bb27cbf785cfbda482009672bd56d46f54d1cb9e3e60db3f8e975165691f96
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
1097
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077910

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:55 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,268 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • golden (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text on a red background.

Colors

  • red
  • golden
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • arch centered
  • text around arch

Dense Caption

The image features a solid dark red background. A golden arch spans the center horizontally, with vertical sides curving inward at the bottom. The arch has a gradient from bright yellow at the top to orange at the bottom. Black pixelated text reading 'TICK' repeats four times along the top edge of the arch and four times along the bottom edge of the arch. The text is positioned symmetrically around the arch's perimeter. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The overall style is pixelated and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • A red background with a golden arch and repeated 'TICK' text in black pixelated font around the arch's perimeter.

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

  • red background golden arch tick text
  • tick text repeated golden arch
  • retro digital tick arch red
  • symmetrical tick arch red background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • TICK

Wordwall

  • red background
  • golden arch
  • black pixelated text
  • TICK repeated
  • symmetrical layout
  • retro digital style
  • solid color background
  • gradient arch
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070810173027788666179
Archive entry
20070810173027788666179.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070810173027788666179.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070810173027788666179.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016