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Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern.

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Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern.

Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating background pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. The background features a repeating dark blue diamond lattice pattern. Each text block uses a white pixelated font with a slightly blurred appearance. The text is centered within each quadrant of the grid. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background diamond lattice
  • pixelated text sketchy british pirate
  • text blocks
  • retro digital text
  • low resolution blue text
  • white pixelated british pirate
  • diamond lattice blue background
  • text blocks sketchy british pirate

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text blocks

Visible Text

  • Sketchy British Pirate

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • dark blue diamond lattice
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical text blocks
  • "Sketchy British Pirate" text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution graphics
  • centered text
  • repeating pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201004181259311956734600
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
c44d777a54c8d56f
SHA-256
c44d777a54c8d56fd2c45c7f8203d7284d4e2d264b40a0a1ba2088b947e5ab99
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:37 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,190 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 684

Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • dark blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • repeating background pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background. The background features a repeating dark blue diamond lattice pattern. Each text block uses a white pixelated font with a slightly blurred appearance. The text is centered within each quadrant of the grid. The overall image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated text blocks reading "Sketchy British Pirate" on a blue background with a dark blue diamond lattice pattern.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • blue background diamond lattice
  • pixelated text sketchy british pirate
  • text blocks
  • retro digital text
  • low resolution blue text
  • white pixelated british pirate
  • diamond lattice blue background
  • text blocks sketchy british pirate

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text blocks

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • text

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  • Sketchy British Pirate

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  • dark blue diamond lattice
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical text blocks
  • "Sketchy British Pirate" text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution graphics
  • centered text
  • repeating pattern
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
61
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
201004181259311956734600
Archive entry
201004181259311956734600.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201004181259311956734600.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201004181259311956734600.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016