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A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles.

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A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles.

A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central blue 'W'
  • overlaid red text
  • speckled background

Dense Caption

The image displays a large, solid dark blue capital letter 'W' rendered in low-resolution pixels. Overlaid across the middle of the 'W' is bold red pixelated text spelling 'CUBS WIN'. The background consists of a white field with scattered small yellow and purple speckle-like pixels. The entire composition has a distinctly retro digital appearance due to its blocky, low-resolution rendering style.

Description

  • A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071109204439663663932

Named Entities

  • Chicago Cubs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue W CUBS WIN
  • CUBS WIN pixelated text
  • retro digital 'W' with red text
  • yellow purple speckles background

Visible Text

  • CUBS WIN

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago Cubs (implied by 'CUBS')

Wordwall

  • blue capital W
  • red CUBS WIN text
  • white background
  • yellow speckles
  • purple speckles
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071109204439663663932
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a42d07f261754e29ff8d723c13c5301f039726362f82344710b9235ae4846f29.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
a42d07f261754e29
SHA-256
a42d07f261754e29ff8d723c13c5301f039726362f82344710b9235ae4846f29
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078821

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,109 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 660

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • letter w (subject, 0.80)
  • text cubs win (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • yellow
  • purple

Composition

  • central blue 'W'
  • overlaid red text
  • speckled background

Dense Caption

The image displays a large, solid dark blue capital letter 'W' rendered in low-resolution pixels. Overlaid across the middle of the 'W' is bold red pixelated text spelling 'CUBS WIN'. The background consists of a white field with scattered small yellow and purple speckle-like pixels. The entire composition has a distinctly retro digital appearance due to its blocky, low-resolution rendering style.

Description

  • A pixelated blue 'W' with red text reading 'CUBS WIN' overlaid on a white background with faint yellow and purple speckles.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071109204439663663932

Named Entities

  • Chicago Cubs

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue W CUBS WIN
  • CUBS WIN pixelated text
  • retro digital 'W' with red text
  • yellow purple speckles background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • letter 'W'
  • text 'CUBS WIN'

Visible Text

  • CUBS WIN

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago Cubs (implied by 'CUBS')

Wordwall

  • blue capital W
  • red CUBS WIN text
  • white background
  • yellow speckles
  • purple speckles
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20071109204439663663932
Archive entry
20071109204439663663932.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071109204439663663932.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071109204439663663932.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016