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Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom.

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Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom.

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text occupies upper half
  • flames occupy lower half
  • horizontal centering of text
  • no negative space

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice in the upper portion; orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom; no visible motion or animation changes; text is centered horizontally; flames are stylized with jagged edges; all elements are static; no additional subjects or objects present.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom.

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

  • red background black text flames
  • pixelated flames text
  • look at the flames repeated
  • 8-bit flames text

Visible Text

  • look at the flames

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • look at the flames
  • repeated text
  • orange flames
  • red flames
  • pixelated flames
  • centered text
  • jagged flame edges
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090406160901555351972
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
495 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/926ad308e568991e1f7149efa38b751de52c4298b198c7bc31bfe42ff3dc8632.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
926ad308e568991e
SHA-256
926ad308e568991e1f7149efa38b751de52c4298b198c7bc31bfe42ff3dc8632
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094013

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,971 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 578

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dramatic (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • text occupies upper half
  • flames occupy lower half
  • horizontal centering of text
  • no negative space

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice in the upper portion; orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom; no visible motion or animation changes; text is centered horizontally; flames are stylized with jagged edges; all elements are static; no additional subjects or objects present.

Description

  • Red background with black pixelated text reading 'look at the flames' repeated twice, orange and red pixelated flames at the bottom.

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

  • urgent
  • dramatic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text flames
  • pixelated flames text
  • look at the flames repeated
  • 8-bit flames text

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • look at the flames

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixelated text
  • look at the flames
  • repeated text
  • orange flames
  • red flames
  • pixelated flames
  • centered text
  • jagged flame edges
  • static image
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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
20090406160901555351972
Archive entry
20090406160901555351972.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090406160901555351972.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090406160901555351972.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016