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Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments.

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Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments.

Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red highlight boxes shift position across observations
  • red highlight boxes move from top to middle to bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red highlight boxes shift from top to middle to bottom while text remains static

Composition

  • text arranged in horizontal
  • red boxes overlaying text segments
  • dotted lines separating text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments.

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 Supported By Image

  • text repetition
  • red highlight boxes
  • pixelated font

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bow chicka bow ow text
  • red highlight boxes pixelated text
  • repeated bow chicka text
  • pixelated text with red overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era, but pixels show no era-specific elements beyond text style
  • quarantined animationSummary: Red highlight boxes shift from top row to middle row to bottom row while text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: dotted lines separating text rows
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in horizontal rows
  • quarantined animation: red highlight boxes move from top row to middle row to bottom row

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but no pixel-supported claims

Visible Text

  • bow chicka
  • bow ow......

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red highlight boxes
  • repeated 'bow chicka' text
  • repeated 'bow ow......' text
  • horizontal dotted lines
  • pixelated font
  • text repetition
  • red rectangular overlays
  • text alignment

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731102736320249792
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
666 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3e765dd451daecedd499713cefb6cf7f3ba7868e20a65ec63ac583d471eb07ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
3e765dd451daeced
SHA-256
3e765dd451daecedd499713cefb6cf7f3ba7868e20a65ec63ac583d471eb07ce
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084531

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.927047onnx/unsafe0.084531onnx/nsfw0.052549onnx/nsfl0.031981
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,129 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,160, response 1,092

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • mechanical (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • red highlight boxes shift position across observations
  • red highlight boxes move from top to middle to bottom

Animation Summary

  • Red highlight boxes shift from top to middle to bottom while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text arranged in horizontal
  • red boxes overlaying text segments
  • dotted lines separating text

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text reading 'bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka bow chicka

Description

  • Pixelated text displays 'bow chicka bow ow......' in white on black background with red highlight boxes over specific text segments.

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 Supported By Image

  • text repetition
  • red highlight boxes
  • pixelated font

Mood

  • repetitive
  • mechanical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bow chicka bow ow text
  • red highlight boxes pixelated text
  • repeated bow chicka text
  • pixelated text with red overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 era, but pixels show no era-specific elements beyond text style
  • quarantined animationSummary: Red highlight boxes shift from top row to middle row to bottom row while text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: dotted lines separating text rows
  • quarantined composition: text arranged in horizontal rows
  • quarantined animation: red highlight boxes move from top row to middle row to bottom row

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection and era but no pixel-supported claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • bow chicka
  • bow ow......

Wordwall

  • white pixelated text
  • black background
  • red highlight boxes
  • repeated 'bow chicka' text
  • repeated 'bow ow......' text
  • horizontal dotted lines
  • pixelated font
  • text repetition
  • red rectangular overlays
  • text alignment
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:55 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
20070731102736320249792
Archive entry
20070731102736320249792.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731102736320249792.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731102736320249792.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016