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Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes across frames

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Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes across frames

Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • brightness variation
  • text sharpness variation

Animation Summary

  • Text and light effects vary in brightness and sharpness across four

Composition

  • central light effect
  • text

Dense Caption

Four identical 4x4 grid panels display red backgrounds with central white light effects. Blue text reads 'Lights' (four times), 'Flashin', and 'Lights' (two times) per panel. Pixelation varies: top-left has brighter white glow, bottom-right shows more blurred text; all panels share the same layout but differ in brightness and sharpness of text elements.

Description

  • Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812282208451334594465

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background blue text lights flashin
  • pixelated animation white light effect
  • text-based buddy icon red blue

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four rows, showing pixelated animation changes across frames.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text and light effects vary in brightness and sharpness across four panels.
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid panels

Visible Text

  • Lights
  • Flashin

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue text
  • white light effect
  • pixelated animation
  • Lights Flashin Lights Lights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812282208451334594465
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.7 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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
2e4bcdc837f46ad6
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 09:41 UTC
Run
1287
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000574

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Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes across frames

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 611

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • brightness variation (other, 0.80)
  • text sharpness variation (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • animation change

Animation

  • brightness variation
  • text sharpness variation

Animation Summary

  • Text and light effects vary in brightness and sharpness across four

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central light effect
  • text

Dense Caption

Four identical 4x4 grid panels display red backgrounds with central white light effects. Blue text reads 'Lights' (four times), 'Flashin', and 'Lights' (two times) per panel. Pixelation varies: top-left has brighter white glow, bottom-right shows more blurred text; all panels share the same layout but differ in brightness and sharpness of text elements.

Description

  • Red background with blue text reading Lights Flashin Lights Lights in four , showing pixelated animation changes 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200812282208451334594465

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background blue text lights flashin
  • pixelated animation white light effect
  • text-based buddy icon red blue

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined composition: 4x4 grid panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Lights
  • Flashin

Wordwall

  • red background
  • blue text
  • white light effect
  • pixelated animation
  • Lights Flashin Lights Lights
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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
200812282208451334594465
Archive entry
200812282208451334594465.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812282208451334594465.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812282208451334594465.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016