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Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous".

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Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous".

Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • left: lightning bolts
  • right: text sections

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a dark background. On the left, there is a pixelated depiction of lightning bolts in shades of purple and white. On the right, white pixelated text is arranged in four sections: "lightning is dangerous" at the top, "and scary" in the bottom left, "but mostly" in the top right, and "dangerous" at the bottom right. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The overall visual style is low-resolution and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lightning bolts purple white
  • pixelated text lightning dangerous
  • retro graphics warning humor
  • lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous

Visible Text

  • lightning is dangerous
  • and scary
  • but mostly dangerous

Wordwall

  • lightning bolts
  • purple
  • white
  • dark background
  • pixelated text
  • lightning is dangerous
  • and scary
  • but mostly dangerous
  • blocky font
  • retro graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810251748311319483987
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
469021af9e2d4a12
SHA-256
469021af9e2d4a12115488dde8e2fdf19e7f1a0a325df412bb1230e9a082e561
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088967

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Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous".

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,104 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 642

Review tags

  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • warning (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro graphics (style, 0.80)
  • lightning bolts (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • purple
  • white
  • dark background

Composition

  • left: lightning bolts
  • right: text sections

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a dark background. On the left, there is a pixelated depiction of lightning bolts in shades of purple and white. On the right, white pixelated text is arranged in four sections: "lightning is dangerous" at the top, "and scary" in the bottom left, "but mostly" in the top right, and "dangerous" at the bottom right. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style. The overall visual style is low-resolution and retro, consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

Pixelated lightning bolts in purple and white on dark background with white text reading "lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous".

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

Mood

  • warning
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lightning bolts purple white
  • pixelated text lightning dangerous
  • retro graphics warning humor
  • lightning is dangerous and scary but mostly dangerous

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • retro graphics

Subjects

  • lightning bolts

Visible Text

  • lightning is dangerous
  • and scary
  • but mostly dangerous

Wordwall

  • lightning bolts
  • purple
  • white
  • dark background
  • pixelated text
  • lightning is dangerous
  • and scary
  • but mostly dangerous
  • blocky font
  • retro graphics
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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
200810251748311319483987
Archive entry
200810251748311319483987.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#200810251748311319483987.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810251748311319483987.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016