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Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots.

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Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots.

Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • two- layout
  • symmetrical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical text sequences on a background of pink and white diagonal stripes with white dots. On the left side, the text reads 'U', 'S', 'A', 'U', 'S', 'A' from top to bottom. On the right side, the text reads 'U', 'S', 'A', 'U', 'S', 'A' from top to bottom. The background consists of pink and white diagonal stripes with white dots scattered across. The text is black and appears to be in a bold, sans-serif font. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • vertical text usaus usa
  • pink white striped background dots
  • black text on pink white stripes
  • usaus usa vertical text
  • text based icon with dots
  • usaus usa striped background
  • usaus usa dot pattern
  • usaus usa vertical alignment

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two-column layout

Visible Text

  • U
  • S
  • A

Wordwall

  • vertical text
  • pink and white stripes
  • white dots
  • black text
  • U S A U S A
  • left side text
  • right side text
  • diagonal stripes
  • scattered dots
  • bold sans-serif font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805173430518754031
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b0e54ff61726d43c634c46bb26ec240b1a3908e3b64a75cdcd02ffd41e36bc9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
8b0e54ff61726d43
SHA-256
8b0e54ff61726d43c634c46bb26ec240b1a3908e3b64a75cdcd02ffd41e36bc9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108291

OpenAI category scores

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

Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,614 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 665

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dot pattern (style, 0.80)
  • striped background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • two- layout
  • symmetrical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows two vertical text sequences on a background of pink and white diagonal stripes with white dots. On the left side, the text reads 'U', 'S', 'A', 'U', 'S', 'A' from top to bottom. On the right side, the text reads 'U', 'S', 'A', 'U', 'S', 'A' from top to bottom. The background consists of pink and white diagonal stripes with white dots scattered across. The text is black and appears to be in a bold, sans-serif font. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Vertical text 'USAUS' on left and 'USUSA' on right against pink and white striped background with white dots.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • vertical text usaus usa
  • pink white striped background dots
  • black text on pink white stripes
  • usaus usa vertical text
  • text based icon with dots
  • usaus usa striped background
  • usaus usa dot pattern
  • usaus usa vertical alignment

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two-column layout

Style

  • text-based
  • striped background
  • dot pattern

Visible Text

  • U
  • S
  • A

Wordwall

  • vertical text
  • pink and white stripes
  • white dots
  • black text
  • U S A U S A
  • left side text
  • right side text
  • diagonal stripes
  • scattered dots
  • bold sans-serif font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:30 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070805173430518754031
Archive entry
20070805173430518754031.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805173430518754031.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805173430518754031.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016