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Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames.

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Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames.

Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 1: red bar behind top arrow pattern
  • frame 2: red bar behind middle arrow pattern
  • frame 3: red bar behind bottom arrow pattern

Animation Summary

  • Red bars shift horizontally behind different arrow patterns

Composition

  • three of arrows
  • horizontal bar placement

Dense Caption

White pixelated arrows form three distinct patterns: '◇>«' (top), '◇>' (middle), and '««' (bottom) against a solid black background. Red rectangular bars appear horizontally behind the top arrow pattern in one frame, behind the middle arrow pattern in another frame, and behind the bottom arrow pattern in a third frame. The animation cycles through these three configurations with red bars shifting position while maintaining consistent pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames.

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
  • 200901261614071710196883

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixel arrows black background red bars
  • arrow symbols animation red bar shifts
  • pixel art three arrow patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Red bars shift horizontally behind different arrow patterns across three frames.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of arrows

Wordwall

  • white arrows
  • black background
  • red horizontal bars
  • pixel art
  • three arrow patterns
  • animation cycle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901261614071710196883
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
400 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8c4df64422cbfdd97b3e076656d65d37d8337eb8ceb57fc8a5c33d273b00f317.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
8c4df64422cbfdd9
SHA-256
8c4df64422cbfdd97b3e076656d65d37d8337eb8ceb57fc8a5c33d273b00f317
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090835

OpenAI category scores

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Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,090 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 627

Review tags

  • bar shifts positions (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • red bars (object, 0.80)
  • frame 1 red bar behind top arrow pattern (other, 0.80)
  • frame 2 red bar behind middle arrow pattern (other, 0.80)
  • frame 3 red bar behind bottom arrow pattern (other, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • arrow symbols (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • bar shifts positions

Animation

  • frame 1: red bar behind top arrow pattern
  • frame 2: red bar behind middle arrow pattern
  • frame 3: red bar behind bottom arrow pattern

Animation Summary

  • Red bars shift horizontally behind different arrow patterns

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • three of arrows
  • horizontal bar placement

Dense Caption

White pixelated arrows form three distinct patterns: '◇>«' (top), '◇>' (middle), and '««' (bottom) against a solid black background. Red rectangular bars appear horizontally behind the top arrow pattern in one frame, behind the middle arrow pattern in another frame, and behind the bottom arrow pattern in a third frame. The animation cycles through these three configurations with red bars shifting position while maintaining consistent pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixel art animation of white arrow symbols on black background with red horizontal bars appearing in different positions across frames.

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
  • 200901261614071710196883

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white pixel arrows black background red bars
  • arrow symbols animation red bar shifts
  • pixel art three arrow patterns

Objects

  • red bars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined animationSummary: Red bars shift horizontally behind different arrow patterns across three frames.
  • quarantined composition: three rows of arrows

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • arrow symbols

Wordwall

  • white arrows
  • black background
  • red horizontal bars
  • pixel art
  • three arrow patterns
  • animation cycle
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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
200901261614071710196883
Archive entry
200901261614071710196883.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#200901261614071710196883.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901261614071710196883.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016