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A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments.

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A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments.

A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayba…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central fiery object
  • scattered fragments
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a central fiery object emitting bright orange and yellow light, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments. The background is solid black. The central object has a curved shape with a glowing white tip. There are no visible text elements or distinct subjects. The color palette consists of black, various shades of orange, and yellow. The image appears to be a low-resolution digital rendering with a focus on the fiery object and its surrounding fragments.

Description

A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fiery object black background
  • orange yellow fragments
  • pixelated digital rendering
  • glowing white tip
  • central curved shape
  • scattered fragments
  • low-resolution
  • black background orange fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • fiery object
  • orange and yellow hues
  • black background
  • scattered fragments
  • glowing white tip
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • central curved shape

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
16989
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:33 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/81017277141e57d99b94d1073cffe0ef2fa3d2b417c76b32f3a2f7f9b3687323.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 20:33 UTC
Archive ID
81017277141e57d9
SHA-256
81017277141e57d99b94d1073cffe0ef2fa3d2b417c76b32f3a2f7f9b3687323
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 08:32 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085088

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914912onnx/unsafe0.085088onnx/nsfw0.047342onnx/nsfl0.037746
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,382 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,029, response 692

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • intense (mood, 0.80)
  • fiery object (object, 0.80)
  • fragments (object, 0.80)
  • digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • yellow

Composition

  • central fiery object
  • scattered fragments
  • black background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon with a central fiery object emitting bright orange and yellow light, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments. The background is solid black. The central object has a curved shape with a glowing white tip. There are no visible text elements or distinct subjects. The color palette consists of black, various shades of orange, and yellow. The image appears to be a low-resolution digital rendering with a focus on the fiery object and its surrounding fragments.

Description

A pixelated image shows a fiery object with orange and yellow hues against a dark background, surrounded by scattered red and orange fragments.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • buddy-icons
  • aim

Mood

  • dynamic
  • intense

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • fiery object black background
  • orange yellow fragments
  • pixelated digital rendering
  • glowing white tip
  • central curved shape
  • scattered fragments
  • low-resolution
  • black background orange fragments

Objects

  • fiery object
  • fragments

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital rendering

Wordwall

  • fiery object
  • orange and yellow hues
  • black background
  • scattered fragments
  • glowing white tip
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution
  • central curved shape
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 03:52 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 (1)
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Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
16989
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 20:33 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/16989.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111122225521id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/16989.gif