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A static image with four quadrants displaying pixelated text on solid backgrounds.

A static image with four quadrants displaying pixelated text on solid backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: red background, white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Top-right quadrant: dark red background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Bottom-left quadrant: black background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Bottom-right quadrant: dark red background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No animation or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying pixelated text on solid backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080406172120165694395
  • 20080407100939563925587

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pool+soccer rockford four quadrants
  • red dark red black white text
  • pixelated blocky font quad layout
  • rockford pool soccer text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red dark red black white text grid

Visible Text

  • pool+soccer
  • ROCKFORD!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background top-left
  • dark red background top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • white pixelated text
  • 'pool+soccer' text
  • 'ROCKFORD!' text
  • blocky digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080406172120165694395
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080407100939563925587
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
653 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b4d7d7dd8e08d56a50c741fb2593527278bcf41ce940f18ff2bc8b42c3adc631.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
b4d7d7dd8e08d56a
SHA-256
b4d7d7dd8e08d56a50c741fb2593527278bcf41ce940f18ff2bc8b42c3adc631
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.170001

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with four quadrants displaying pixelated text on solid backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,994 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,151, response 703

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • dark red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • quadrant
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant: red background, white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Top-right quadrant: dark red background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Bottom-left quadrant: black background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. Bottom-right quadrant: dark red background, identical white pixelated text 'pool+soccer' above 'ROCKFORD!'. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No animation or additional visual elements present.

Description

  • A static image with four quadrants displaying pixelated text on solid backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080406172120165694395
  • 20080407100939563925587

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pool+soccer rockford four quadrants
  • red dark red black white text
  • pixelated blocky font quad layout
  • rockford pool soccer text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red dark red black white text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • pool+soccer
  • ROCKFORD!

Wordwall

  • four quadrants
  • red background top-left
  • dark red background top-right
  • black background bottom-left
  • white pixelated text
  • 'pool+soccer' text
  • 'ROCKFORD!' text
  • blocky digital font
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Full source records (2)

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
20080406172120165694395
Archive entry
20080406172120165694395.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080406172120165694395.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080406172120165694395.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
20080407100939563925587
Archive entry
20080407100939563925587.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080407100939563925587.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080407100939563925587.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016