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Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three

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Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three

Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three vertical
  • evenly spaced
  • centered text
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with yellow pixelated text. Three identical vertical columns of text: top row 'WHW', second row 'CHEER '08', third row 'WATCHUNG', fourth row 'HILLS', fifth row 'WOLVERINES'. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. All text is uppercase. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present. Text is horizontally centered within each column. Columns are evenly spaced across the image. The image contains no non-text elements or decorations.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES
  • yellow text dark blue background
  • three pixel art
  • blocky font retro digital
  • repeated text
  • WOLVERINES text
  • WATCHUNG HILLS text
  • CHEER '08 text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: evenly spaced columns
  • quarantined wordwall: centered columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns pixel art

Visible Text

  • WHW
  • CHEER '08
  • WATCHUNG
  • HILLS
  • WOLVERINES

Wordwall

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  • no motion
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  • repeated text
  • retro digital style
  • evenly spaced
  • pixelated
  • no symbols
  • no decorations
  • no subjects
  • no objects

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811160625221124579865
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
449 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d63bde8010c89f12328249976d23037b03b97deedac3e56b5cadbd35cd509b77.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
d63bde8010c89f12
SHA-256
d63bde8010c89f12328249976d23037b03b97deedac3e56b5cadbd35cd509b77
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096083

OpenAI category scores

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Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,923 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 782

Review tags

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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • three vertical
  • evenly spaced
  • centered text
  • repeated text

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with yellow pixelated text. Three identical vertical columns of text: top row 'WHW', second row 'CHEER '08', third row 'WATCHUNG', fourth row 'HILLS', fifth row 'WOLVERINES'. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. All text is uppercase. No visible motion or animation changes. No additional subjects, objects, or symbols present. Text is horizontally centered within each column. Columns are evenly spaced across the image. The image contains no non-text elements or decorations.

Description

  • Static pixel art displays yellow text on dark blue background with repeated 'WHW CHEER '08 WATCHUNG HILLS WOLVERINES' text in three

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
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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

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  • blocky font retro digital
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  • WOLVERINES text
  • WATCHUNG HILLS text
  • CHEER '08 text

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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
200811160625221124579865
Archive entry
200811160625221124579865.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#200811160625221124579865.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811160625221124579865.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016