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Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background.

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Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background.

Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Source terms

Composition

  • circular icon left of center
  • text segments top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Circular icon features a pixelated United States Marine Corps eagle, globe, and anchor emblem centered over a blurred American flag pattern with visible red and white stripes. The icon is positioned left of center against a solid black background. Red pixelated text appears in four segments: "The" at top right, "Best" below it, "of the" at bottom left, and "Best" at bottom right. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background.

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
  • 20071030083924345269738

Named Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • marine corps emblem
  • american flag background
  • the best of the best text
  • red pixelated text
  • black background icon

Visible Text

  • The Best
  • of the
  • Best

Visually Supported Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • Marine Corps emblem
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • four text segments
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071030083924345269738
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b8c132a7546061c46cf2674cd1a0c7ae5a8d0f4c5bb78e9bdcfa9008855e3274.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
b8c132a7546061c4
SHA-256
b8c132a7546061c46cf2674cd1a0c7ae5a8d0f4c5bb78e9bdcfa9008855e3274
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.468679

OpenAI category scores

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Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 13:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,546 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 662

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • american flag pattern (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • eagle globe anchor emblem (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • circular icon left of center
  • text segments top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Circular icon features a pixelated United States Marine Corps eagle, globe, and anchor emblem centered over a blurred American flag pattern with visible red and white stripes. The icon is positioned left of center against a solid black background. Red pixelated text appears in four segments: "The" at top right, "Best" below it, "of the" at bottom left, and "Best" at bottom right. All text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Circular icon with American flag background and Marine Corps emblem, red text "The Best of the Best" on black background.

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
  • 20071030083924345269738

Named Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • marine corps emblem
  • american flag background
  • the best of the best text
  • red pixelated text
  • black background icon

Objects

  • American flag pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • eagle, globe, anchor emblem

Visible Text

  • The Best
  • of the
  • Best

Visually Supported Entities

  • United States Marine Corps

Wordwall

  • American flag background
  • Marine Corps emblem
  • red pixelated text
  • black background
  • four text segments
  • blocky font
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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
20071030083924345269738
Archive entry
20071030083924345269738.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#20071030083924345269738.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071030083924345269738.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016