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A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning" in green, blue, and teal.

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A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning" in green, blue, and teal.

A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning"…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • dense
  • text in two horizontal lines
  • gray rectangle on right edge

Dense Caption

The image features a white background covered with a repeating pattern of black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta. Overlaid on this pattern is the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning"; "Those" and "fast as" are in green, "kicks" and "Lightning" are in blue, and "were" is in teal. The lightning bolts are arranged in a dense, uniform grid. The right edge of the image has a solid gray rectangular area. The text is positioned in two horizontal lines: "Those kicks were" on the top line and "fast as Lightning" on the bottom line. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning" in green, blue, and teal.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806201259401326967521

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lightning bolts text fast as
  • green blue teal text
  • cyan yellow magenta bolts
  • gray rectangle right edge
  • repeating black lightning bolts
  • text overlay white background
  • buddy icon lightning text
  • pixelated lightning bolts

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle on right edge may be a crop or artifact
  • quarantined wordwall: dense uniform grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: dense grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Those
  • kicks
  • were
  • fast as
  • Lightning

Wordwall

  • repeating black lightning bolts
  • cyan yellow magenta bolts
  • white background
  • green text "Those fast as"
  • blue text "kicks Lightning"
  • teal text "were"
  • gray rectangle right edge
  • text in two horizontal lines
  • dense uniform pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806201259401326967521
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
4ee837e4ad05e387
SHA-256
4ee837e4ad05e38781d3007d14a23e855a18b97316b0781ace88a9a423e67ffb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.127346

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning" in green, blue, and teal.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,804 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 930

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • lightning bolts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • cyan
  • yellow
  • magenta
  • green
  • blue
  • teal
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • dense
  • text in two horizontal lines
  • gray rectangle on right edge

Dense Caption

The image features a white background covered with a repeating pattern of black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta. Overlaid on this pattern is the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning"; "Those" and "fast as" are in green, "kicks" and "Lightning" are in blue, and "were" is in teal. The lightning bolts are arranged in a dense, uniform grid. The right edge of the image has a solid gray rectangular area. The text is positioned in two horizontal lines: "Those kicks were" on the top line and "fast as Lightning" on the bottom line. The image is static with no visible animation.

Description

A static image with a white background filled with repeating black lightning bolt shapes in cyan, yellow, and magenta, overlaid with the text "Those kicks were fast as Lightning" in green, blue, and teal.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806201259401326967521

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • lightning bolts text fast as
  • green blue teal text
  • cyan yellow magenta bolts
  • gray rectangle right edge
  • repeating black lightning bolts
  • text overlay white background
  • buddy icon lightning text
  • pixelated lightning bolts

Objects

  • lightning bolts

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray rectangle on right edge may be a crop or artifact
  • quarantined wordwall: dense uniform grid pattern
  • quarantined composition: dense grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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  • text overlay

Subjects

  • lightning bolts
  • text

Visible Text

  • Those
  • kicks
  • were
  • fast as
  • Lightning

Wordwall

  • repeating black lightning bolts
  • cyan yellow magenta bolts
  • white background
  • green text "Those fast as"
  • blue text "kicks Lightning"
  • teal text "were"
  • gray rectangle right edge
  • text in two horizontal lines
  • dense uniform pattern
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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
200806201259401326967521
Archive entry
200806201259401326967521.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806201259401326967521.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806201259401326967521.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016