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American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol

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American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol

American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two
  • text over flag background

Dense Caption

American flag background with red and white stripes and blue field of white stars. Two panels of white text with black outlines: top panel reads "vote for susan" followed by "&"; bottom panel reads "vote for merin" followed by "&". Text is bold, blocky, pixelated font. Each panel's text and ampersand are positioned over the flag background. The flag background shows slight pixelation and color bleeding typical of low-resolution digital images from the early 2000s.

Description

American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol

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

  • vote for susan ampersand
  • vote for merin ampersand
  • american flag text
  • patriotic vote text
  • susan merin vote
  • ampersand flag text
  • vote for susan vote for merin
  • text ampersand flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate panels, each followed by an ampersand symbol.
  • quarantined composition: two panels

Visible Text

  • vote for susan
  • vote for merin
  • &

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • red and white stripes
  • blue field with white stars
  • white text with black outlines
  • vote for susan
  • vote for merin
  • ampersand symbol
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution digital image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080917120635458958197
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/8516163cd0fcb9baad785a1eb39c0e361fc84b83038419e8dee4ce0d0178afab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
8516163cd0fcb9ba
SHA-256
8516163cd0fcb9baad785a1eb39c0e361fc84b83038419e8dee4ce0d0178afab
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000527

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
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1119
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American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,849 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 722

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • patriotic (mood, 0.80)
  • political (mood, 0.80)
  • american flag (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • ampersand symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • two
  • text over flag background

Dense Caption

American flag background with red and white stripes and blue field of white stars. Two panels of white text with black outlines: top panel reads "vote for susan" followed by "&"; bottom panel reads "vote for merin" followed by "&". Text is bold, blocky, pixelated font. Each panel's text and ampersand are positioned over the flag background. The flag background shows slight pixelation and color bleeding typical of low-resolution digital images from the early 2000s.

Description

American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate , each followed by an ampersand symbol

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

Mood

  • patriotic
  • political

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  • vote for susan ampersand
  • vote for merin ampersand
  • american flag text
  • patriotic vote text
  • susan merin vote
  • ampersand flag text
  • vote for susan vote for merin
  • text ampersand flag

Objects

  • American flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: American flag background with white text reading "vote for susan" and "vote for merin" in two separate panels, each followed by an ampersand symbol.
  • quarantined composition: two panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Subjects

  • text
  • ampersand symbol

Visible Text

  • vote for susan
  • vote for merin
  • &

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • red and white stripes
  • blue field with white stars
  • white text with black outlines
  • vote for susan
  • vote for merin
  • ampersand symbol
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution digital image
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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
20080917120635458958197
Archive entry
20080917120635458958197.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080917120635458958197.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080917120635458958197.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016