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A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white background.

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A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white background.

A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left fabric, right text

Dense Caption

The image consists of two distinct sections: a left-side visual element and a right-side text element. The left section displays a pixelated close-up of a blue and white striped fabric, likely a flag or cloth, with visible folds and a dark background beneath it. The right section contains blue pixelated text on a white background, arranged in five lines. The text reads 'Born' on the first line, 'to' on the second, 'a' on the third, 'ravenclaw' on the fourth, and 'be' on the fifth. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is split vertically, with the fabric image on the left and the text on the right. The fabric's blue and white colors match the text's blue color scheme. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early internet graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white 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 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 striped fabric ravenclaw
  • born to be ravenclaw
  • pixelated text ravenclaw
  • ravenclaw fabric text
  • blue white fabric ravenclaw
  • ravenclaw born to be
  • ravenclaw text fabric
  • ravenclaw pixelated

Visible Text

  • Born
  • to
  • a
  • ravenclaw
  • be

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  • dark background
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  • blue text
  • white background
  • Born
  • to
  • a
  • ravenclaw
  • be
  • blocky font
  • vertical split composition
  • low-resolution
  • early digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807105119846959209
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
2.9 KB
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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
8400e86e474ade3f
SHA-256
8400e86e474ade3f8ed4d5c30d7908c4a86db898c896f456cb2d5c0ebbd61ee3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
1113
Input
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097398

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

A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,394 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 819

Review tags

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  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • fabric (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • dark

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left fabric, right text

Dense Caption

The image consists of two distinct sections: a left-side visual element and a right-side text element. The left section displays a pixelated close-up of a blue and white striped fabric, likely a flag or cloth, with visible folds and a dark background beneath it. The right section contains blue pixelated text on a white background, arranged in five lines. The text reads 'Born' on the first line, 'to' on the second, 'a' on the third, 'ravenclaw' on the fourth, and 'be' on the fifth. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is split vertically, with the fabric image on the left and the text on the right. The fabric's blue and white colors match the text's blue color scheme. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early internet graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a blue and white striped fabric with a dark background, accompanied by blue text reading 'Born to be a ravenclaw' on a white 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • born to be ravenclaw
  • pixelated text ravenclaw
  • ravenclaw fabric text
  • blue white fabric ravenclaw
  • ravenclaw born to be
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  • pixelated
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  • a
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  • be

Wordwall

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  • blue text
  • white background
  • Born
  • to
  • a
  • ravenclaw
  • be
  • blocky font
  • vertical split composition
  • low-resolution
  • early digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:42 UTC
Run
52
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v5
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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
20070807105119846959209
Archive entry
20070807105119846959209.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#20070807105119846959209.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807105119846959209.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016