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Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background.

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Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background.

Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Source terms

Composition

  • text centered
  • horizontal line separating text
  • small central dot on line

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with pixelated white text 'MCCAIN' in uppercase at the top, a thin horizontal line with a small central dot separating it from 'PALIN' in uppercase below, all text rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MCCAIN PALIN text icon
  • dark blue background pixelated text
  • horizontal line separating MCCAIN PALIN
  • low-resolution political text icon

Visible Text

  • MCCAIN
  • PALIN

Wordwall

  • MCCAIN
  • PALIN
  • horizontal line
  • small central dot
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • low-resolution graphics
  • text-based icon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081024225842960214221
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fa/fa25b31dd780c8d67c78004355d1546e31f739c942fd6fc11eaccac116c63b0f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
fa25b31dd780c8d6
SHA-256
fa25b31dd780c8d67c78004355d1546e31f739c942fd6fc11eaccac116c63b0f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089642

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,384 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 628

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • text centered
  • horizontal line separating text
  • small central dot on line

Dense Caption

Dark blue background with pixelated white text 'MCCAIN' in uppercase at the top, a thin horizontal line with a small central dot separating it from 'PALIN' in uppercase below, all text rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'MCCAIN' above a horizontal line and 'PALIN' below it on a dark blue background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • MCCAIN PALIN text icon
  • dark blue background pixelated text
  • horizontal line separating MCCAIN PALIN
  • low-resolution political text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • MCCAIN
  • PALIN

Wordwall

  • MCCAIN
  • PALIN
  • horizontal line
  • small central dot
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated text
  • blocky font
  • uppercase letters
  • low-resolution graphics
  • text-based icon
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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
20081024225842960214221
Archive entry
20081024225842960214221.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081024225842960214221.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081024225842960214221.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016