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Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts.

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Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts.

Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • vertical text
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts. The text is arranged in two vertical columns, each reading 'DANG!' from top to bottom. Pink plus signs and starbursts are distributed across the background, with some appearing larger than others. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts.

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

  • DANG! DANG! pink plus signs
  • vertical text black background
  • pixelated DANG! DANG! starbursts
  • pink starbursts black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Visible Text

  • DANG! DANG!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • vertical text
  • DANG! DANG!
  • pink plus signs
  • starbursts
  • pixelated style
  • scattered symbols
  • two

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708121234081392543552
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
600 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/94/949c07ffa16cc067e09072f3dd4bbc106aea3f76a088f8c65884b730cc9af9fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
949c07ffa16cc067
SHA-256
949c07ffa16cc067e09072f3dd4bbc106aea3f76a088f8c65884b730cc9af9fc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 16:19 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001181

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.141865

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,086 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 580

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • vertical text
  • scattered symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts. The text is arranged in two vertical columns, each reading 'DANG!' from top to bottom. Pink plus signs and starbursts are distributed across the background, with some appearing larger than others. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with vertical white text 'DANG! DANG!' flanked by scattered pink plus signs and starbursts.

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

  • DANG! DANG! pink plus signs
  • vertical text black background
  • pixelated DANG! DANG! starbursts
  • pink starbursts black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: two columns
  • quarantined composition: vertical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics

Visible Text

  • DANG! DANG!

Wordwall

  • black background
  • vertical text
  • DANG! DANG!
  • pink plus signs
  • starbursts
  • pixelated style
  • scattered symbols
  • two
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:21 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708121234081392543552
Archive entry
200708121234081392543552.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708121234081392543552.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708121234081392543552.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016