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Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between

Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Action

Style

Color

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Animation

  • symbol transitions: plus to asterisk to multiplication sign
  • dot appearance and movement

Animation Summary

Animated sequence showing symbol transitions between : plus sign changes to asterisk, then to multiplication sign; small dots appear and move in lower portion

Composition

  • three of text
  • symbols between
  • dots scattered below

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Three horizontal rows of identical white pixelated text reading 'WOW! 2008'. First row has a white plus sign below center; second row has a white asterisk to the right and a small dot below center; third row has a white multiplication sign on the far right, with scattered white dots near bottom. Animation changes: first frame shows only plus sign between rows one and two; second frame replaces plus sign with an asterisk and adds a single dot below it; third frame replaces asterisk with a multiplication sign and adds multiple small dots around the lower portion of the image.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801011656001459606614

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background wow 2008 animated
  • wows 2008 text animation
  • plus asterisk multiplication dot animation
  • pixelated wow 2008 symbols

Objects

  • plus sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between rows.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Animated sequence showing symbol transitions between rows: plus sign changes to asterisk, then to multiplication sign; small dots appear and move in lower portion.
  • quarantined composition: symbols between rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout with three rows of text

Visible Text

  • WOW!
  • 2008

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'WOW! 2008' repeated
  • plus sign animation
  • asterisk animation
  • multiplication sign animation
  • small dot animations

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801011656001459606614
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6a34e301fb4a127a774e841495b2f6595e80838b33ad16bf528b8aaac783ffcf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
6a34e301fb4a127a
SHA-256
6a34e301fb4a127a774e841495b2f6595e80838b33ad16bf528b8aaac783ffcf
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075497

OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,382 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 754

Review tags

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  • symbols change plus asterisk multiplication (action, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • multiplication sign (object, 0.80)
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  • small dots (object, 0.80)
  • dot appearance and movement (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
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  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols change: plus → asterisk → multiplication
  • dots appear and move

Animation

  • symbol transitions: plus to asterisk to multiplication sign
  • dot appearance and movement

Animation Summary

Animated sequence showing symbol transitions between : plus sign changes to asterisk, then to multiplication sign; small dots appear and move in lower portion

Colors

  • purple
  • white

Composition

  • three of text
  • symbols between
  • dots scattered below

Dense Caption

Solid purple background. Three horizontal rows of identical white pixelated text reading 'WOW! 2008'. First row has a white plus sign below center; second row has a white asterisk to the right and a small dot below center; third row has a white multiplication sign on the far right, with scattered white dots near bottom. Animation changes: first frame shows only plus sign between rows one and two; second frame replaces plus sign with an asterisk and adds a single dot below it; third frame replaces asterisk with a multiplication sign and adds multiple small dots around the lower portion of the image.

Description

  • Purple background with repeated 'WOW! 2008' text in white pixelated font, featuring animated symbols between

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801011656001459606614

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple background wow 2008 animated
  • wows 2008 text animation
  • plus asterisk multiplication dot animation
  • pixelated wow 2008 symbols

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  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • multiplication sign
  • small dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animationSummary: Animated sequence showing symbol transitions between rows: plus sign changes to asterisk, then to multiplication sign; small dots appear and move in lower portion.
  • quarantined composition: symbols between rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout with three rows of text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Visible Text

  • WOW!
  • 2008

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • 'WOW! 2008' repeated
  • plus sign animation
  • asterisk animation
  • multiplication sign animation
  • small dot animations
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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
200801011656001459606614
Archive entry
200801011656001459606614.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200801011656001459606614.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801011656001459606614.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016