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Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them

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Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three
  • text-centered
  • symbol-centered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated in three rows of three. First row symbols: plus sign, asterisk, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, three dots. Third row symbols: four dots, five dots, scattered dots. All text and symbols are white on black. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BANG text
  • BANG plus asterisk X
  • BANG dot three dots
  • BANG four dots five dots
  • BANG scattered dots
  • BANG white on black
  • BANG pixelated
  • BANG monochrome

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three rows, each row containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: BANG pixelated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: BANG text grid

Visible Text

  • BANG

Wordwall

  • BANG text
  • three
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • dot
  • three dots
  • four dots
  • five dots
  • scattered dots
  • white on black
  • pixelated
  • repeated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708091011331678181881
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
698 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37115ecb5b4805ac910d99accc0a5e99000b200a700ce98d2afb6bb925dac5e4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
37115ecb5b4805ac
SHA-256
37115ecb5b4805ac910d99accc0a5e99000b200a700ce98d2afb6bb925dac5e4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079849

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,318 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 698

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • text-centered
  • symbol-centered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated in three rows of three. First row symbols: plus sign, asterisk, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, three dots. Third row symbols: four dots, five dots, scattered dots. All text and symbols are white on black. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three , each containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BANG text
  • BANG plus asterisk X
  • BANG dot three dots
  • BANG four dots five dots
  • BANG scattered dots
  • BANG white on black
  • BANG pixelated
  • BANG monochrome

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white pixelated text "BANG" repeated across three rows, each row containing three instances of the text with varying white symbols below them.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined style: grid
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  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined retrieval: BANG pixelated grid
  • quarantined retrieval: BANG text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • BANG

Wordwall

  • BANG text
  • three
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • dot
  • three dots
  • four dots
  • five dots
  • scattered dots
  • white on black
  • pixelated
  • repeated text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:59 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708091011331678181881
Archive entry
200708091011331678181881.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708091011331678181881.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708091011331678181881.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016