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Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background.

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Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background.

Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • uniform star pattern
  • text layered over stars
  • multiple text repetitions

Dense Caption

The image is static pixel art with a white background covered in small, evenly spaced blue stars. Overlaid on the stars are repeated instances of red text: 'Gerard Way 4' appears multiple times, and 'President '03', 'President '05', and 'President '08' also repeat across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible animations or changes between frames; all elements remain fixed.

Description

  • Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Gerard Way

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Gerard Way

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Gerard Way President '03
  • Gerard Way 4 blue stars
  • President '05 red text
  • Gerard Way President '08

Visible Text

  • Gerard Way 4
  • President '03
  • President '05
  • President '08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gerard Way

Wordwall

  • blue star pattern background
  • red text 'Gerard Way 4'
  • text 'President '03'
  • text 'President '05'
  • text 'President '08'
  • repeated text layout
  • pixelated font style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803081148281410947238
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/aa/aaf3979bbf473c9dda875a1fd65a2142224c686a0b24d232bacab588693c485a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
aaf3979bbf473c9d
SHA-256
aaf3979bbf473c9dda875a1fd65a2142224c686a0b24d232bacab588693c485a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087443

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:26 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,199 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 639

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • retro digital (mood, 0.80)
  • blue stars (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive layout (style, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • uniform star pattern
  • text layered over stars
  • multiple text repetitions

Dense Caption

The image is static pixel art with a white background covered in small, evenly spaced blue stars. Overlaid on the stars are repeated instances of red text: 'Gerard Way 4' appears multiple times, and 'President '03', 'President '05', and 'President '08' also repeat across the image. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible animations or changes between frames; all elements remain fixed.

Description

  • Static pixel art featuring red text 'Gerard Way 4' and 'President '03 '05 '08' over a blue star pattern background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Gerard Way

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • retro digital

Named Entities

  • Gerard Way

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Gerard Way President '03
  • Gerard Way 4 blue stars
  • President '05 red text
  • Gerard Way President '08

Objects

  • blue stars

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font
  • repetitive layout

Subjects

  • text elements

Visible Text

  • Gerard Way 4
  • President '03
  • President '05
  • President '08

Visually Supported Entities

  • Gerard Way

Wordwall

  • blue star pattern background
  • red text 'Gerard Way 4'
  • text 'President '03'
  • text 'President '05'
  • text 'President '08'
  • repeated text layout
  • pixelated font style
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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
200803081148281410947238
Archive entry
200803081148281410947238.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803081148281410947238.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803081148281410947238.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016