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Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text.

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Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text.

Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • non-uniform plus sign distribution

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered cyan plus signs. Four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'FAME' text is identical in style and position. The plus signs are distributed across the background in a non-uniform pattern. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text.

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

  • green cyan plus signs fame
  • fame pixelated text
  • cyan plus signs green background
  • fame four times

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: fame four times grid
  • quarantined retrieval: fame pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • FAME

Wordwall

  • green background
  • cyan plus signs
  • four 'FAME' texts
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201109141405141689610979
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 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 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
86f17eee3a319e8b
SHA-256
86f17eee3a319e8bd1576c63dc30dae8fbe3e20f2db1cccb86de7c6ccf7c6d95
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Assessed
August 16, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
1298
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000529

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July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
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Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:48 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,225 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • non-uniform plus sign distribution

Dense Caption

Green background with scattered cyan plus signs. Four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each 'FAME' text is identical in style and position. The plus signs are distributed across the background in a non-uniform pattern. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with cyan plus signs and four instances of the word 'FAME' in black pixelated text.

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

  • green cyan plus signs fame
  • fame pixelated text
  • cyan plus signs green background
  • fame four times

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: fame four times grid
  • quarantined retrieval: fame pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Visible Text

  • FAME

Wordwall

  • green background
  • cyan plus signs
  • four 'FAME' texts
  • pixelated text
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
201109141405141689610979
Archive entry
201109141405141689610979.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201109141405141689610979.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201109141405141689610979.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016