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Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background.

Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback…

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About this icon

Actions

text color change

Animation

text color alternates between white and red

Animation Summary

Text color alternates between white and red for 'Sucks' across observations.

Composition

centered sign
text surrounding sign

Dense Caption

Yellow diamond-shaped sign with black text reading 'DEAD END' in pixelated font; four instances of the sign arranged in a 2x2 grid on gray background. Text elements: 'My Town' in white pixelated font with underscore under 'My' (top-left and top-right), 'My Town' in white pixelated font with underscore under 'My' (bottom-left and bottom-right), 'Sucks' in white pixelated font (bottom-left and top-left), 'Sucks' in red pixelated font (top-right and bottom-right). All text and sign elements are static except 'Sucks' text alternates between white and red across observations.

Description

Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
provenance topic-coverage: attitude
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: college
provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 25261
observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 25261

Metadata Supported By Image

provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

dead end sign my town sucks
yellow diamond dead end sign
my town dead end sucks
sucks text color change

Preprocessing Notes

source hints indicate animated asset but only text color changes observed
quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

provenance era: 2002
provenance era: 2007
provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
provenance collection-attribute: aim
provenance topic-coverage: attitude
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: college
provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
provenance topic-coverage: holidays
provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

My Town
DEAD END
Sucks

Wordwall

yellow diamond sign
DEAD END text
My Town text
Sucks text
gray background
white text
red text
underscore under My
pixelated font

Source & archive date

Added to archive: July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title: 25261
Category: icon
Era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed: July 13, 2026 at 05:22 UTC

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Technical archive details

Format: GIF
Dimensions: 50×50 pixels
File size: 2.3 KB
Motion: Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive: July 13, 2026
Relative path: icons/36/369b9cd04453cf7f464f6ad38c13b44be286dfeb40d3aa9608269ced378199ee.gif
Media type: image/gif
Scanner metadata: v1
Animation inspected: July 13, 2026 at 05:22 UTC
Archive ID: 369b9cd04453cf7f
SHA-256: 369b9cd04453cf7f464f6ad38c13b44be286dfeb40d3aa9608269ced378199ee

Content-safety assessments (2)

openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow

Assessed: August 20, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run: 1315
Input: image+text
Preprocessing: contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label: not-flagged
Overall score: 0.142088

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad

Assessed: July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run: 107
Input: image
Preprocessing: four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label: sfw
Overall score: 0.079477

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)

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Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background.

Reviewed: August 20, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run: 62
Version: v5
Elapsed: 10,961 ms
Tokens: prompt 2,069, response 891

Actions

text color change

Animation

text color alternates between white and red

Animation Summary

Text color alternates between white and red for 'Sucks' across observations.

Colors

yellow
black
white
red
gray

Composition

centered sign
text surrounding sign

Dense Caption

Description

Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
provenance topic-coverage: attitude
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: college
provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 25261
observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 25261

Metadata Supported By Image

provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

sarcastic
critical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

dead end sign my town sucks
yellow diamond dead end sign
my town dead end sucks
sucks text color change

Objects

sign
text

Preprocessing Notes

source hints indicate animated asset but only text color changes observed
quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

provenance era: 2002
provenance era: 2007
provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
provenance collection-attribute: aim
provenance topic-coverage: attitude
provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
provenance topic-coverage: college
provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
provenance topic-coverage: holidays
provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

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Subjects

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Visible Text

My Town
DEAD END
Sucks

Wordwall

yellow diamond sign
DEAD END text
My Town text
Sucks text
gray background
white text
red text
underscore under My
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Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind: wayback-cdx
Era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type: Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category: icon
Alt: 25261
Observed: July 13, 2026 at 05:22 UTC
Rights: mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice: large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/25261.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010806142518id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/25261.gif

Yellow diamond-shaped 'DEAD END' sign with black text, surrounded by 'My Town' and 'Sucks' text in white and red on gray background.

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