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Red pixelated flames flicker against a solid black background in a horizontal strip.

Red pixelated flames flicker against a solid black background in a horizontal strip. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static red pixelated flames in a horizontal strip against black background

Composition

  • horizontal strip
  • bottom edge
  • solid background

Dense Caption

A horizontal strip of red pixelated flames flickers against a solid black background. The flames consist of multiple distinct flame shapes with varying heights and widths, all rendered in solid red pixels. The background is uniformly black with no visible texture or gradient. The flames appear to be static in the provided frame, showing no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated flames flicker against a solid black background in a horizontal strip.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated flames
  • black background flames
  • static fire icon
  • horizontal strip flames
  • pixel art fire
  • red and black flames
  • low-resolution fire
  • minimalist fire icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed in provided frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Wordwall

  • red flames
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • horizontal strip
  • solid red
  • no motion
  • static flames
  • uniform background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201101201142581877018954
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
404 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/49/4909ca1508c95385ba2abbf157d06db545abd6bcc41cf7f071a67599f7f45c92.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
4909ca1508c95385
SHA-256
4909ca1508c95385ba2abbf157d06db545abd6bcc41cf7f071a67599f7f45c92
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105242

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902713onnx/unsafe0.105242onnx/nsfl0.058852onnx/nsfw0.046390
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red pixelated flames flicker against a solid black background in a horizontal strip.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 22:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,948 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 583

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • intense (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • flames (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static red pixelated flames in a horizontal strip against black background

Colors

  • red
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal strip
  • bottom edge
  • solid background

Dense Caption

A horizontal strip of red pixelated flames flickers against a solid black background. The flames consist of multiple distinct flame shapes with varying heights and widths, all rendered in solid red pixels. The background is uniformly black with no visible texture or gradient. The flames appear to be static in the provided frame, showing no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Red pixelated flames flicker against a solid black background in a horizontal strip.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • intense
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red pixelated flames
  • black background flames
  • static fire icon
  • horizontal strip flames
  • pixel art fire
  • red and black flames
  • low-resolution fire
  • minimalist fire icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation observed in provided frame

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata hints but no pixel evidence supports them

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • flames

Wordwall

  • red flames
  • pixelated
  • black background
  • horizontal strip
  • solid red
  • no motion
  • static flames
  • uniform background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201101201142581877018954
Archive entry
201101201142581877018954.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201101201142581877018954.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201101201142581877018954.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016