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Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text

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Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text

Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have wh…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered
  • star below text

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with white 'SpEnCe' text and a red five-pointed star below the text. Top-right quadrant: dark red background with white 'SpEnCe' text. Bottom-left quadrant: bright red background with white 'SpEnCe' text and a black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark red background with white 'SpEnCe' text. All text uses a pixelated font. The star symbols differ in color between quadrants: red star in top-left, black star in bottom-left, and no stars in top-right or bottom-right. The background colors are black, dark red, and bright red. The text 'SpEnCe' appears in all four quadrants.

Description

Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SpEnCe text
  • red star black background
  • black star bright red background
  • four quadrant
  • pixelated text
  • white text dark red background
  • white text bright red background
  • star symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four panels display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text.
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • SpEnCe

Wordwall

  • 'SpEnCe' text
  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • dark red background
  • bright red background
  • red star
  • black star
  • five-pointed stars
  • white text
  • four quadrants
  • text in all quadrants
  • star symbols in two quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081114140304786892669
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d29b0208d4284df9d13836a0f36593ef138a8c44976557822e5a4105f708ed94.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
d29b0208d4284df9
SHA-256
d29b0208d4284df9d13836a0f36593ef138a8c44976557822e5a4105f708ed94
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:01 UTC
Run
1043
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104477

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Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,285 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 796

Review tags

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

  • black
  • dark red
  • bright red
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • text centered
  • star below text

Dense Caption

The image consists of four quadrants. Top-left quadrant: black background with white 'SpEnCe' text and a red five-pointed star below the text. Top-right quadrant: dark red background with white 'SpEnCe' text. Bottom-left quadrant: bright red background with white 'SpEnCe' text and a black five-pointed star below the text. Bottom-right quadrant: dark red background with white 'SpEnCe' text. All text uses a pixelated font. The star symbols differ in color between quadrants: red star in top-left, black star in bottom-left, and no stars in top-right or bottom-right. The background colors are black, dark red, and bright red. The text 'SpEnCe' appears in all four quadrants.

Description

Four display 'SpEnCe' text with star symbols; top-left black background has red star, bottom-left red background has black star, top-right and bottom-right red backgrounds have white text

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

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  • white text dark red background
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Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • SpEnCe

Wordwall

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  • pixelated font
  • black background
  • dark red background
  • bright red background
  • red star
  • black star
  • five-pointed stars
  • white text
  • four quadrants
  • text in all quadrants
  • star symbols in two quadrants
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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
20081114140304786892669
Archive entry
20081114140304786892669.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#20081114140304786892669.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081114140304786892669.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016