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Red text on black background reads 'A thousand black flowers explode' with white pixel symbols changing across frames.

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Red text on black background reads 'A thousand black flowers explode' with white pixel symbols changing across frames.

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • white symbols change sequentially: plus sign → cross → asterisk → plus sign → period → three dots → small white dots

Animation Summary

  • White symbols change sequentially: plus sign → cross → asterisk → plus sign → period → three dots → small white dots

Composition

  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays red text reading 'A thousand black flowers explode' in a pixelated font against a solid black background. The phrase appears consistently across all visible observations. White pixel symbols change sequentially: first a plus sign, then a cross, followed by an asterisk, then another plus sign, a period, three dots, and finally small white dots scattered below the text. These changes occur in chronological order without altering the main text or background.

Description

  • Red text on black background reads 'A thousand black flowers explode' with white pixel 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070925170618670736859

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • thousand black flowers explode
  • white symbols animation
  • pixelated font explosion

Visible Text

  • A thousand black flowers explode

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • white symbols change
  • plus sign
  • cross symbol
  • asterisk
  • period
  • three dots
  • small white dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070925170618670736859
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
525 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b08207c6d7199b6de14b8851897e9d0d94275d05876905002e28050906ed990.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
5b08207c6d7199b6
SHA-256
5b08207c6d7199b6de14b8851897e9d0d94275d05876905002e28050906ed990
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 04:58 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000497

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104992

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Red text on black background reads 'A thousand black flowers explode' with white pixel symbols changing across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,676 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 682

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • white symbols change sequentially: plus sign → cross → asterisk → plus sign → period → three dots → small white dots

Animation Summary

  • White symbols change sequentially: plus sign → cross → asterisk → plus sign → period → three dots → small white dots

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays red text reading 'A thousand black flowers explode' in a pixelated font against a solid black background. The phrase appears consistently across all visible observations. White pixel symbols change sequentially: first a plus sign, then a cross, followed by an asterisk, then another plus sign, a period, three dots, and finally small white dots scattered below the text. These changes occur in chronological order without altering the main text or background.

Description

  • Red text on black background reads 'A thousand black flowers explode' with white pixel 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070925170618670736859

Mood

  • dynamic
  • mysterious

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red text black background
  • thousand black flowers explode
  • white symbols animation
  • pixelated font explosion

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • minimalist

Visible Text

  • A thousand black flowers explode

Wordwall

  • red text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • white symbols change
  • plus sign
  • cross symbol
  • asterisk
  • period
  • three dots
  • small white dots
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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
20070925170618670736859
Archive entry
20070925170618670736859.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070925170618670736859.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070925170618670736859.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016