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Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack.

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Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack.

Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains red pixelated text on a blue gradient background with bright white light effects at the top and bottom. The text reads 'GO' followed by 'Tar Heels', 'EMSC', 'TLW', and 'camp' stacked vertically from top to bottom. All panels are visually identical, showing no animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080420183839950495929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text blue background white light
  • Tar Heels EMSC TLW camp
  • four identical vertical stack
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels vertical stack

Visible Text

  • GO
  • Tar Heels
  • EMSC
  • TLW
  • camp

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • blue gradient background
  • white light effects
  • vertical text stack
  • four identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080420183839950495929
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/df/df764fff1b092c5ddfffc667f9dd9ea36987d522e1ab8c02b79ac3e7ff259c23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
df764fff1b092c5d
SHA-256
df764fff1b092c5ddfffc667f9dd9ea36987d522e1ab8c02b79ac3e7ff259c23
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:53 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.143246

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,606 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 605

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • vertical text alignment
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

The image shows four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains red pixelated text on a blue gradient background with bright white light effects at the top and bottom. The text reads 'GO' followed by 'Tar Heels', 'EMSC', 'TLW', and 'camp' stacked vertically from top to bottom. All panels are visually identical, showing no animation changes between observations.

Description

  • Red text on blue background with white light effects, displaying multiple lines of text in a vertical stack.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080420183839950495929

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text blue background white light
  • Tar Heels EMSC TLW camp
  • four identical vertical stack
  • pixelated text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels vertical stack

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Visible Text

  • GO
  • Tar Heels
  • EMSC
  • TLW
  • camp

Wordwall

  • red pixelated text
  • blue gradient background
  • white light effects
  • vertical text stack
  • four identical
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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
20080420183839950495929
Archive entry
20080420183839950495929.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080420183839950495929.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080420183839950495929.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016