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Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes.

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Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes.

Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text 'skater'
  • top-right text 'punks'
  • centered text 'are'
  • bottom-center text 'awsome'

Dense Caption

The image features a red and black checkerboard pattern as the background. Overlaid on this background are three lines of pixelated white text in black rectangular outlines: 'skater' at top left, 'punks' at top right, 'are' centered below them, and 'awsome' (misspelled) at bottom center. Below each line of text is a dark gray shape resembling stylized figures or abstract forms with visible pixelation. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081205153741245124138
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081205153741245124138

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skater punks are awsome
  • red black checkerboard text
  • pixelated low resolution
  • misspelled awsome

Visible Text

  • skater
  • punks
  • are
  • awsome

Visually Supported Entities

  • text 'skater'
  • text 'punks'
  • text 'are'
  • text 'awsome'

Wordwall

  • red black checkerboard
  • pixelated white text
  • skater punks are awsome
  • dark gray shapes
  • low resolution
  • misspelled 'awsome'
  • black rectangular outlines

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081205153741245124138
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c4518357cec5ea0d40b421e16c54d4b92ff1059cf8022489f8a27cb938b14f0e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
c4518357cec5ea0d
SHA-256
c4518357cec5ea0d40b421e16c54d4b92ff1059cf8022489f8a27cb938b14f0e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097235

OpenAI category scores

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Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,183 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 825

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkerboard background (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • shapes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • top-left text 'skater'
  • top-right text 'punks'
  • centered text 'are'
  • bottom-center text 'awsome'

Dense Caption

The image features a red and black checkerboard pattern as the background. Overlaid on this background are three lines of pixelated white text in black rectangular outlines: 'skater' at top left, 'punks' at top right, 'are' centered below them, and 'awsome' (misspelled) at bottom center. Below each line of text is a dark gray shape resembling stylized figures or abstract forms with visible pixelation. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Red and black checkered background with pixelated text reading 'skater punks are awsome' over dark gray shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20081205153741245124138
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20081205153741245124138

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skater punks are awsome
  • red black checkerboard text
  • pixelated low resolution
  • misspelled awsome

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art
  • checkerboard background

Subjects

  • text
  • shapes

Visible Text

  • skater
  • punks
  • are
  • awsome

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  • text 'skater'
  • text 'punks'
  • text 'are'
  • text 'awsome'

Wordwall

  • red black checkerboard
  • pixelated white text
  • skater punks are awsome
  • dark gray shapes
  • low resolution
  • misspelled 'awsome'
  • black rectangular outlines
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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
20081205153741245124138
Archive entry
20081205153741245124138.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081205153741245124138.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081205153741245124138.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016