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A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text.

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A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text.

A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right

Dense Caption

Left side: blue background with a circular emblem containing a red center, white eagle, brown anchor, and green laurel wreath, bordered by gold and blue rings with text. Right side: solid red background with black pixelated "USM" text. The emblem is the United States Marine Corps seal. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • USMC seal USM
  • blue red split USM
  • eagle anchor laurel wreath
  • pixelated USM text

Visible Text

  • USM

Visually Supported Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Wordwall

  • USMC seal
  • blue background
  • red background
  • USM text
  • eagle
  • anchor
  • laurel wreath
  • circular emblem
  • pixelated text
  • split-screen

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071121150731745977791
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a9/a997972232a56b676218df40f6198f99aaa708868c9fef29fdefef0af1ef716a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
a997972232a56b67
SHA-256
a997972232a56b676218df40f6198f99aaa708868c9fef29fdefef0af1ef716a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093256

OpenAI category scores

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

A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,565 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 583

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • anchor (subject, 0.80)
  • eagle (subject, 0.80)
  • laurel wreath (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • green
  • gold

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left-right

Dense Caption

Left side: blue background with a circular emblem containing a red center, white eagle, brown anchor, and green laurel wreath, bordered by gold and blue rings with text. Right side: solid red background with black pixelated "USM" text. The emblem is the United States Marine Corps seal. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with a blue background on the left featuring a circular emblem and a red background on the right displaying "USM" text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • USMC seal USM
  • blue red split USM
  • eagle anchor laurel wreath
  • pixelated USM text

Objects

  • circular emblem

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • eagle
  • anchor
  • laurel wreath

Visible Text

  • USM

Visually Supported Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Wordwall

  • USMC seal
  • blue background
  • red background
  • USM text
  • eagle
  • anchor
  • laurel wreath
  • circular emblem
  • pixelated text
  • split-screen
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:02 UTC
Run
53
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
20071121150731745977791
Archive entry
20071121150731745977791.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071121150731745977791.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071121150731745977791.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016