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Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped.

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Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped.

Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Composition

  • four text instances
  • circular background elements
  • partially cropped shapes

Dense Caption

Black background contains overlapping circular shapes in shades of gray and white; some circles are fully visible while others are partially cropped. Four instances of green pixelated text reading "richard" appear: two at the top center-left and top center-right positions, and two at the bottom center-left and bottom center-right positions. The text is rendered with a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green richard text
  • black background circles
  • pixelated green text
  • four richard instances

Visible Text

  • richard

Visually Supported Entities

  • richard

Wordwall

  • green text
  • "richard"
  • black background
  • gray circles
  • white circles
  • partially cropped shapes
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712032111181978538983
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
eb58400e2ff8ba3f
SHA-256
eb58400e2ff8ba3f1a09c4fbedbedc1c0dcd2e427cdd0ceb822803da114b3c7b
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:59 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108540

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Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:03 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,282 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 565

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • four text instances
  • circular background elements
  • partially cropped shapes

Dense Caption

Black background contains overlapping circular shapes in shades of gray and white; some circles are fully visible while others are partially cropped. Four instances of green pixelated text reading "richard" appear: two at the top center-left and top center-right positions, and two at the bottom center-left and bottom center-right positions. The text is rendered with a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green text reading "richard" appears in four positions on a black background with gray and white circles, each circle partially cropped.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green richard text
  • black background circles
  • pixelated green text
  • four richard instances

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • circles

Visible Text

  • richard

Visually Supported Entities

  • richard

Wordwall

  • green text
  • "richard"
  • black background
  • gray circles
  • white circles
  • partially cropped shapes
  • 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
200712032111181978538983
Archive entry
200712032111181978538983.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712032111181978538983.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712032111181978538983.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016