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Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block.

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Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block.

Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • two vertical text blocks
  • four bar groups
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated text: top-left block shows 'boom' (two lines), 'pow' (one line); top-right block mirrors top-left; bottom-left block shows 'boom' (two lines), 'pow' (one line); bottom-right block mirrors bottom-left. Green horizontal bars below each text block: top-left bars are three short, one medium, two short; top-right bars are one short, two medium, one short, two medium, one short; bottom-left bars are three short, one medium, two short; bottom-right bars are one short, two medium, one short, two medium, one short. All text and bars are static.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text boom pow
  • green bars black background
  • pixelated text blocks
  • symmetrical layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • boom
  • pow

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • green bars
  • pixelated font
  • text blocks
  • repeated 'boom'
  • repeated 'pow'
  • horizontal bars
  • static animation
  • two text blocks
  • four bar groups

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906241348141430708229
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
997 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d7887b206e42ae5b9567465b7697f57594d71d727ba1b03779489858d35c296.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
6d7887b206e42ae5
SHA-256
6d7887b206e42ae5b9567465b7697f57594d71d727ba1b03779489858d35c296
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016119

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.220729

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,829 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 783

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • cyan
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • two vertical text blocks
  • four bar groups
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Black background with cyan pixelated text: top-left block shows 'boom' (two lines), 'pow' (one line); top-right block mirrors top-left; bottom-left block shows 'boom' (two lines), 'pow' (one line); bottom-right block mirrors bottom-left. Green horizontal bars below each text block: top-left bars are three short, one medium, two short; top-right bars are one short, two medium, one short, two medium, one short; bottom-left bars are three short, one medium, two short; bottom-right bars are one short, two medium, one short, two medium, one short. All text and bars are static.

Description

  • Pixelated cyan text 'boom' repeated twice and 'pow' once on black background, with green horizontal bars below each text block.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan text boom pow
  • green bars black background
  • pixelated text blocks
  • symmetrical layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • boom
  • pow

Wordwall

  • cyan text
  • black background
  • green bars
  • pixelated font
  • text blocks
  • repeated 'boom'
  • repeated 'pow'
  • horizontal bars
  • static animation
  • two text blocks
  • four bar groups
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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
200906241348141430708229
Archive entry
200906241348141430708229.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#200906241348141430708229.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906241348141430708229.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016