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Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames.

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Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames.

Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • transition from square to diamond shapes

Animation Summary

The image transitions from a square checkered pattern to a diamond checkered pattern while maintaining the red and white color scheme and the 'recent?' text in four corners.

Composition

  • four corners
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image displays a red and white checkered pattern with four instances of the text 'recent?' in black pixelated font. The pattern transitions from square-shaped red and white tiles to diamond-shaped red and white tiles across the frames. The text 'recent?' appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions of the image. The transition shows the square tiles rotating into diamond tiles while maintaining the red and white color scheme.

Description

  • Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames.

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

  • red white checkered recent text
  • square to diamond transition
  • four recent text corners
  • pixelated recent text animation

Visible Text

  • recent?

Wordwall

  • red and white checkered
  • four 'recent?' texts
  • square to diamond transition
  • pixelated black text
  • red white color scheme
  • text in four corners
  • transition animation
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081127164355270754156
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d29b7351a9b6a578be7f75e22e336512de38f65ab92f31e61baf374f97dad3b7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
d29b7351a9b6a578
SHA-256
d29b7351a9b6a578be7f75e22e336512de38f65ab92f31e61baf374f97dad3b7
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000583

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July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
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Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,036 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 689

Review tags

  • transition from square to diamond shapes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • checkered pattern (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • checkered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • transition from square to diamond shapes

Animation

  • transition from square to diamond shapes

Animation Summary

The image transitions from a square checkered pattern to a diamond checkered pattern while maintaining the red and white color scheme and the 'recent?' text in four corners.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four corners
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image displays a red and white checkered pattern with four instances of the text 'recent?' in black pixelated font. The pattern transitions from square-shaped red and white tiles to diamond-shaped red and white tiles across the frames. The text 'recent?' appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right positions of the image. The transition shows the square tiles rotating into diamond tiles while maintaining the red and white color scheme.

Description

  • Red and white checkered pattern with 'recent?' text in four positions, transitioning from square to diamond shapes across frames.

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

  • red white checkered recent text
  • square to diamond transition
  • four recent text corners
  • pixelated recent text animation

Objects

  • checkered pattern
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • checkered
  • animated

Visible Text

  • recent?

Wordwall

  • red and white checkered
  • four 'recent?' texts
  • square to diamond transition
  • pixelated black text
  • red white color scheme
  • text in four corners
  • transition animation
  • pixelated 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
20081127164355270754156
Archive entry
20081127164355270754156.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#20081127164355270754156.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081127164355270754156.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016