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Red background with white text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" and symbols changing across three

Red background with white text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" and symbols changing across three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change across observations

Animation Summary

  • Symbols change across observations: left from + to + to dots, middle from + to * to ., right from + to * to ×

Composition

  • three
  • text stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" in three columns. Left column symbols change from plus sign to plus sign to dots; middle column symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to period; right column symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to cross. Text remains consistent across all columns and observations.

Description

  • Red background with white text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" and symbols changing across three

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • red background
  • white text
  • three columns
  • text content
  • symbols change

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text
  • Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)
  • symbols change
  • three
  • plus asterisk period dots cross
  • text-based animation
  • pixelated text
  • red white color scheme

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • symbols change across observations
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  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbols change across observations: left column from + to + to dots, middle column from + to * to ., right column from + to * to ×.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image

Uncertain Text

  • .
  • ×

Visible Text

  • Go
  • Prep
  • beat
  • mcdowell
  • (who?)
  • +

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • three
  • Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • period
  • dots
  • cross
  • symbols change

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009022317500267419732
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
526 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 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 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
69a831183c86ef16
SHA-256
69a831183c86ef16e1e44e7b295a7cef5bb841cbcaa3df620849445bf6148e43
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077820

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with white text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" and symbols changing across three

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:24 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,473 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 699

Review tags

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  • symbols (subject, 0.80)
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Actions

  • symbols change

Animation

  • symbols change across observations

Animation Summary

  • Symbols change across observations: left from + to + to dots, middle from + to * to ., right from + to * to ×

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • text stacked vertically

Dense Caption

Red background with white pixelated text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" in three columns. Left column symbols change from plus sign to plus sign to dots; middle column symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to period; right column symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to cross. Text remains consistent across all columns and observations.

Description

  • Red background with white text reading "Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)" and symbols changing across three

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • red background
  • white text
  • three columns
  • text content
  • symbols change

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background white text
  • Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)
  • symbols change
  • three
  • plus asterisk period dots cross
  • text-based animation
  • pixelated text
  • red white color scheme

Objects

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  • asterisk
  • period
  • dots
  • cross

Preprocessing Notes

  • symbols change across observations
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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Style

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  • static

Subjects

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Uncertain Text

  • .
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  • Go
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  • beat
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  • (who?)
  • +

Wordwall

  • red background
  • white pixelated text
  • three
  • Go Prep beat mcdowell (who?)
  • plus sign
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  • period
  • dots
  • cross
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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
2009022317500267419732
Archive entry
2009022317500267419732.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#2009022317500267419732.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009022317500267419732.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016