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A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each

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A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each

A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; only symbol variations between static frames.

Composition

  • three horizontal of text
  • symbols centered below each 's text

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of three horizontal rows on an orange background. Each row contains the word "Flincher" in dark red pixelated text at left-center-right positions. Below each row's text are small black pixel-based symbols: top row has +, *, ×; middle row has +, •, :; bottom row has •••, ••••, and scattered dots. All elements maintain consistent spacing across observations with only the lower symbols changing between frames.

Description

A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each

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
  • 200712201614161841347902

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Flincher orange background
  • pixelated Flincher text
  • small black symbols on orange

Preprocessing Notes

  • The input is labeled animated but shows no visible motion; all changes are static symbol variations.
  • quarantined description: A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three rows, with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each row.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom row symbols: ••• ••• scattered dots
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row symbols: + • :
  • quarantined wordwall: top row symbols: + * ×
  • quarantined wordwall: small black symbols below each row
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of text
  • quarantined style: static frame sequence
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symbols centered below each row's text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Flincher text grid

Visible Text

  • Flincher

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • dark red text
  • "Flincher" repeated three times per frame
  • pixelated font
  • three of text
  • small black symbols below each
  • top symbols: + * ×
  • middle symbols: + •
  • bottom symbols: ••• ••• scattered dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712201614161841347902
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
434 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2ea670c52ad0e1809065e9e918d1329a5ddfa6a92cf8523ace42710de33d5e0f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
2ea670c52ad0e180
SHA-256
2ea670c52ad0e1809065e9e918d1329a5ddfa6a92cf8523ace42710de33d5e0f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099707

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.906409onnx/unsafe0.099707onnx/nsfw0.062096onnx/nsfl0.037611
Enrichment records (1)
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A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:19 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,696 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 664

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark red (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible motion; only symbol variations between static frames.

Colors

  • orange
  • dark red
  • black

Composition

  • three horizontal of text
  • symbols centered below each 's text

Dense Caption

The image shows a grid of three horizontal rows on an orange background. Each row contains the word "Flincher" in dark red pixelated text at left-center-right positions. Below each row's text are small black pixel-based symbols: top row has +, *, ×; middle row has +, •, :; bottom row has •••, ••••, and scattered dots. All elements maintain consistent spacing across observations with only the lower symbols changing between frames.

Description

A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three , with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each

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
  • 200712201614161841347902

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Flincher orange background
  • pixelated Flincher text
  • small black symbols on orange

Preprocessing Notes

  • The input is labeled animated but shows no visible motion; all changes are static symbol variations.
  • quarantined description: A static orange background displays the word "Flincher" in dark red text across three rows, with pixelated symbols changing between observations below each row.
  • quarantined wordwall: bottom row symbols: ••• ••• scattered dots
  • quarantined wordwall: middle row symbols: + • :
  • quarantined wordwall: top row symbols: + * ×
  • quarantined wordwall: small black symbols below each row
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows of text
  • quarantined style: static frame sequence
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: symbols centered below each row's text
  • quarantined composition: three horizontal rows of text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated Flincher text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Visible Text

  • Flincher

Wordwall

  • orange background
  • dark red text
  • "Flincher" repeated three times per frame
  • pixelated font
  • three of text
  • small black symbols below each
  • top symbols: + * ×
  • middle symbols: + •
  • bottom symbols: ••• ••• scattered dots
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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
200712201614161841347902
Archive entry
200712201614161841347902.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712201614161841347902.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712201614161841347902.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016