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A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background.

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A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background.

A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered explosion
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated explosion with a bright white and yellow center radiating outward into orange and red hues. The explosion has a star-like shape with jagged edges. The background is dark, contrasting with the bright explosion. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky pixels throughout. There are no discernible figures, text, or additional objects present. The explosion appears to be the sole subject of the image.

Description

  • A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated explosion white center
  • explosion orange red edges
  • dark background pixelated explosion
  • star-like explosion yellow orange red

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no image-confirmed facts

Wordwall

  • pixelated explosion
  • white center
  • yellow transition
  • orange edges
  • red edges
  • dark background
  • star-like shape
  • jagged edges
  • blocky pixels

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201003111727321900734404
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/79/796749218ad6a8a207195444e926a90c3904e58175779fbcbf8eb4bd07fb4a99.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
796749218ad6a8a2
SHA-256
796749218ad6a8a207195444e926a90c3904e58175779fbcbf8eb4bd07fb4a99
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 17:48 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.003784

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagillicit0.003784falseviolence/graphic0.001567falseviolence0.000554falseillicit/violent0.000021falseharassment0.000008falsesexual0.000007falseself-harm0.000007falseharassment/threatening0.000004falseself-harm/intent0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000001falsehate0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

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 17:07 UTC
Run
1060
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089430

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.910570onnx/unsafe0.089430onnx/nsfw0.047784onnx/nsfl0.041645
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,872 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 646

Review tags

  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • intense (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • explosion (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • explosion

Colors

  • white
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • dark

Composition

  • centered explosion
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated explosion with a bright white and yellow center radiating outward into orange and red hues. The explosion has a star-like shape with jagged edges. The background is dark, contrasting with the bright explosion. The image is highly pixelated, with visible blocky pixels throughout. There are no discernible figures, text, or additional objects present. The explosion appears to be the sole subject of the image.

Description

  • A pixelated explosion with bright yellow and white center transitioning to orange and red edges against dark background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • dynamic
  • intense

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated explosion white center
  • explosion orange red edges
  • dark background pixelated explosion
  • star-like explosion yellow orange red

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no image-confirmed facts

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • explosion

Wordwall

  • pixelated explosion
  • white center
  • yellow transition
  • orange edges
  • red edges
  • dark background
  • star-like shape
  • jagged edges
  • blocky pixels
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
201003111727321900734404
Archive entry
201003111727321900734404.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201003111727321900734404.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201003111727321900734404.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016