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Pixelated California license plate with red 'California' script above blue 'MARI' text and red '1999' below on light background.

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Pixelated California license plate with red 'California' script above blue 'MARI' text and red '1999' below on light background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • text centered
  • top script, middle block letters, bottom text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated California license plate. At the top, red script text reads 'California'. Below it, large blue block letters spell 'MARI'. Underneath 'MARI', red text reads '1999'. The background is a light grayish color. The plate has small black dots at the bottom corners. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated California license plate with red 'California' script above blue 'MARI' text and red '1999' below on light 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • California license plate MARI 1999
  • MARI California 1999 license plate
  • California MARI 1999
  • 1999 MARI California license plate

Visible Text

  • California
  • MARI
  • 1999

Wordwall

  • California
  • MARI
  • 1999
  • license plate
  • red script
  • blue block letters
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • black corner dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708111630312049244895
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/86e9eab53409957da303a2f78da8441ad1d8b5b7db86372628c3b644c0653bf1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
86e9eab53409957d
SHA-256
86e9eab53409957da303a2f78da8441ad1d8b5b7db86372628c3b644c0653bf1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:35 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095227

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated California license plate with red 'California' script above blue 'MARI' text and red '1999' below on light background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:16 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,348 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 670

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • license plate (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • light gray
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal layout
  • text centered
  • top script, middle block letters, bottom text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated California license plate. At the top, red script text reads 'California'. Below it, large blue block letters spell 'MARI'. Underneath 'MARI', red text reads '1999'. The background is a light grayish color. The plate has small black dots at the bottom corners. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky artifacts throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated California license plate with red 'California' script above blue 'MARI' text and red '1999' below on light 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • California license plate MARI 1999
  • MARI California 1999 license plate
  • California MARI 1999
  • 1999 MARI California license plate

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • license plate

Subjects

  • license plate

Visible Text

  • California
  • MARI
  • 1999

Wordwall

  • California
  • MARI
  • 1999
  • license plate
  • red script
  • blue block letters
  • light background
  • pixelated
  • black corner dots
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:16 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
200708111630312049244895
Archive entry
200708111630312049244895.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708111630312049244895.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708111630312049244895.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016