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Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette.

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Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette.

Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical repetition
  • text paired with symbols
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" in white pixelated font. Each text line pairs with a red heart symbol on the left and a white rat silhouette on the right. The rat silhouette shows a side profile with a long tail. The text and symbols repeat in a vertical pattern. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text "PROUD" appears at the top of each vertical segment. The word "PLAGUE" is centered between "TO BE A" and "RAT". The rat silhouette is positioned to the right of "RAT". The heart symbol is positioned to the left of "TO BE A". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200910061737301700897264

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • plague rat heart rat silhouette
  • proud to be a plague rat text
  • black background white text red heart
  • rat silhouette heart text pattern

Objects

  • heart

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • PROUD
  • TO BE A
  • PLAGUE
  • RAT

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • red heart
  • white rat silhouette
  • pixelated font
  • repeated pattern
  • vertical layout
  • solid gray rectangle
  • side profile rat
  • long tail
  • text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910061737301700897264
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
c31565c29a9710c2
SHA-256
c31565c29a9710c2c4ac137874eac27d837631b5268d1bd4a50003399cdd3de6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 764

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray

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  • text paired with symbols
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Black background displays repeated text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" in white pixelated font. Each text line pairs with a red heart symbol on the left and a white rat silhouette on the right. The rat silhouette shows a side profile with a long tail. The text and symbols repeat in a vertical pattern. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray rectangle. The text "PROUD" appears at the top of each vertical segment. The word "PLAGUE" is centered between "TO BE A" and "RAT". The rat silhouette is positioned to the right of "RAT". The heart symbol is positioned to the left of "TO BE A". The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • Black background with repeated white text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT" and red heart symbols, each line paired with a white rat silhouette.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200910061737301700897264

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  • proud
  • humorous

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  • proud to be a plague rat text
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  • text-based

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  • rat
  • heart

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  • PROUD
  • TO BE A
  • PLAGUE
  • RAT

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  • white text
  • red heart
  • white rat silhouette
  • pixelated font
  • repeated pattern
  • vertical layout
  • solid gray rectangle
  • side profile rat
  • long tail
  • text "PROUD TO BE A PLAGUE RAT"
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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
200910061737301700897264
Archive entry
200910061737301700897264.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200910061737301700897264.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910061737301700897264.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016