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Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots.

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Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots.

Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots. Animated 48×48 GIF…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • red symbols change across frames: plus sign → asterisk → X → plus sign → dot → colon → plus sign → dots → dots

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change sequentially below 'elevator take me home' text: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, dots.

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of nine identical frames showing pixelated text 'elevator take me home' in black on white. Each frame has a red symbol below the text: first row shows plus sign, asterisk, X; second row shows plus sign, dot, colon; third row shows plus sign, dots, and dots. The red symbols change across frames while the text remains constant. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The red symbols appear to be animated elements that change sequentially.

Description

Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elevator take me home red symbols
  • pixelated text red symbols
  • elevator take me home animation
  • red plus asterisk X animation
  • text-based animation red symbols
  • elevator take me home red dot
  • elevator take me home red colon
  • elevator take me home red dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: nine frames
  • quarantined composition: grid of nine frames

Visible Text

  • elevator take me home

Wordwall

  • elevator take me home
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red dot
  • red colon
  • red dots
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • white background
  • red symbols change
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • text remains constant
  • red symbol positions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822102111217026215
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/6c/6cd5dc6cf33d98276cc0b1a71d4ee68d022663e505196c8a528975026f585d5c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
6cd5dc6cf33d9827
SHA-256
6cd5dc6cf33d98276cc0b1a71d4ee68d022663e505196c8a528975026f585d5c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099236

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:52 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,807 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 814

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • red symbols change across frames: plus sign → asterisk → X → plus sign → dot → colon → plus sign → dots → dots

Animation Summary

  • Red symbols change sequentially below 'elevator take me home' text: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, dots.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • text centered
  • symbols below text

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of nine identical frames showing pixelated text 'elevator take me home' in black on white. Each frame has a red symbol below the text: first row shows plus sign, asterisk, X; second row shows plus sign, dot, colon; third row shows plus sign, dots, and dots. The red symbols change across frames while the text remains constant. The text uses a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The red symbols appear to be animated elements that change sequentially.

Description

Pixelated text reads 'elevator take me home' with red symbols changing across frames: plus sign, asterisk, X, plus sign, dot, colon, plus sign, dots, and dots.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • elevator take me home red symbols
  • pixelated text red symbols
  • elevator take me home animation
  • red plus asterisk X animation
  • text-based animation red symbols
  • elevator take me home red dot
  • elevator take me home red colon
  • elevator take me home red dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: nine frames
  • quarantined composition: grid of nine frames

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • elevator take me home

Wordwall

  • elevator take me home
  • red plus sign
  • red asterisk
  • red X
  • red dot
  • red colon
  • red dots
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • white background
  • red symbols change
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution
  • text remains constant
  • red symbol positions
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:39 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070822102111217026215
Archive entry
20070822102111217026215.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822102111217026215.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822102111217026215.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016