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Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames.

Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially
  • plus sign → star → X → plus sign → star → dots

Animation Summary

  • Animated symbols change sequentially : plus sign, star, X, then plus sign, star, dots

Composition

  • three
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' in pixelated font. Three columns of identical text appear across frames. White symbols change: first column shows a plus sign, second shows a star, third shows an X. Later frames show plus sign, then star, then dots. Symbols animate sequentially across columns.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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

  • cyan text popcorn fight
  • animated symbols plus star X
  • three text
  • pixelated humor text
  • lets have a popcorn fight animation
  • black background cyan text
  • plus sign star X dots animation
  • text-based animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints mention '2007-2016', 'franksicons.com', 'AIM', 'buddy-icons', 'humor', 'holidays', 'games', 'anime', 'celebrities', 'historical-archive' but these are not confirmed by image pixels
  • quarantined animationSummary: Animated symbols change sequentially across columns: plus sign, star, X, then plus sign, star, dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative hints about era, collection, and topic coverage; these are not image-confirmed

Visible Text

  • lets have a popcorn fight!

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • lets have a popcorn fight!
  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dots
  • three
  • animated symbols

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902081701531913435045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
516 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4a/4a35ba1df8237bc78c60a3d448c06f0b5af192eab62b991cfcc092c5ed55f030.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
4a35ba1df8237bc7
SHA-256
4a35ba1df8237bc78c60a3d448c06f0b5af192eab62b991cfcc092c5ed55f030
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094248

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,977 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 714

Review tags

  • animates (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • star (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • animates

Animation

  • symbols change sequentially
  • plus sign → star → X → plus sign → star → dots

Animation Summary

  • Animated symbols change sequentially : plus sign, star, X, then plus sign, star, dots

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' in pixelated font. Three columns of identical text appear across frames. White symbols change: first column shows a plus sign, second shows a star, third shows an X. Later frames show plus sign, then star, then dots. Symbols animate sequentially across columns.

Description

  • Cyan text on black background reads 'lets have a popcorn fight!' with animated white symbols changing across frames.

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

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text popcorn fight
  • animated symbols plus star X
  • three text
  • pixelated humor text
  • lets have a popcorn fight animation
  • black background cyan text
  • plus sign star X dots animation
  • text-based animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Animated symbols change sequentially across columns: plus sign, star, X, then plus sign, star, dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative hints about era, collection, and topic coverage; these are not image-confirmed

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • animated

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • lets have a popcorn fight!

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • lets have a popcorn fight!
  • plus sign
  • star
  • X
  • dots
  • three
  • animated symbols
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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
200902081701531913435045
Archive entry
200902081701531913435045.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#200902081701531913435045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902081701531913435045.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016