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Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles.

Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • four corners
  • like sparkle arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles. The sparkles form a border around the text and are distributed in a grid-like pattern. The sparkles have a glowing effect with a purple hue. The text 'wow!' appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the image. The sparkles are static and do not animate.

Description

  • Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles.

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

  • black background purple sparkles wow text
  • four wow text corners purple sparkles
  • pixelated wow text black background
  • static purple sparkles wow text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like sparkle pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid-like sparkle arrangement

Visible Text

  • wow!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • purple square sparkles
  • four 'wow!' instances
  • glowing sparkles
  • like sparkle pattern
  • static sparkles
  • text in corners

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201205100252221273096477
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/55a28c483b4e52b4a1bd912502d7b974fa02b71f8db3cdc4b44fe2c84794f958.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
55a28c483b4e52b4
SHA-256
55a28c483b4e52b4a1bd912502d7b974fa02b71f8db3cdc4b44fe2c84794f958
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065038

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 02:25 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,754 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • excited (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • four corners
  • like sparkle arrangement

Dense Caption

Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles. The sparkles form a border around the text and are distributed in a grid-like pattern. The sparkles have a glowing effect with a purple hue. The text 'wow!' appears in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the image. The sparkles are static and do not animate.

Description

  • Black background with four instances of 'wow!' text in white pixelated font surrounded by purple square sparkles.

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

  • excited
  • surprised

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black background purple sparkles wow text
  • four wow text corners purple sparkles
  • pixelated wow text black background
  • static purple sparkles wow text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid-like sparkle pattern
  • quarantined composition: grid-like sparkle arrangement

Style

  • pixel art
  • static
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • wow!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • purple square sparkles
  • four 'wow!' instances
  • glowing sparkles
  • like sparkle pattern
  • static sparkles
  • text in corners
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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
201205100252221273096477
Archive entry
201205100252221273096477.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201205100252221273096477.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201205100252221273096477.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016