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Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three

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Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three

Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change from + to * to X then dots/ellipses

Animation Summary

Symbols change sequentially across three : left starts with +, middle with *, right with X; later frames replace symbols with dots and ellipses while text remains static

Composition

  • three
  • four

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated pink text reading 'Bom', 'Chika', 'Wah', 'Wah' in four rows. Left column shows a plus sign, middle column shows a star, right column shows an X; later frames replace these with dots and ellipses. Text remains static while symbols animate across three columns from left to right.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802222223031065440009
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Bom Chika Wah Wah
  • pixelated pink text
  • animated symbols
  • three
  • black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three columns.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbols change sequentially across three columns: left column starts with +, middle with *, right with X; later frames replace symbols with dots and ellipses while text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns

Visible Text

  • Bom
  • Chika
  • Wah

Wordwall

  • Bom
  • Chika
  • Wah
  • plus symbol
  • star symbol
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • ellipses

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802222223031065440009
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
484 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a04b4123183db159e36f50a78584972e18f62857954cd48d16ea5ed270abf92d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
a04b4123183db159
SHA-256
a04b4123183db159e36f50a78584972e18f62857954cd48d16ea5ed270abf92d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 03:51 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000710

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
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1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:28 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,019 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 563

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • symbols change from to to x then dots ellipses (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • symbols change from + to * to X then dots/ellipses

Animation Summary

Symbols change sequentially across three : left starts with +, middle with *, right with X; later frames replace symbols with dots and ellipses while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • three
  • four

Dense Caption

Black background displays pixelated pink text reading 'Bom', 'Chika', 'Wah', 'Wah' in four rows. Left column shows a plus sign, middle column shows a star, right column shows an X; later frames replace these with dots and ellipses. Text remains static while symbols animate across three columns from left to right.

Description

  • Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802222223031065440009
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Bom Chika Wah Wah
  • pixelated pink text
  • animated symbols
  • three
  • black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated pink text 'Bom Chika Wah Wah' on black background with animated symbols changing across three columns.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbols change sequentially across three columns: left column starts with +, middle with *, right with X; later frames replace symbols with dots and ellipses while text remains static.
  • quarantined composition: four rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined retrieval: three columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Bom
  • Chika
  • Wah

Wordwall

  • Bom
  • Chika
  • Wah
  • plus symbol
  • star symbol
  • X symbol
  • dots
  • ellipses
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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
200802222223031065440009
Archive entry
200802222223031065440009.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#200802222223031065440009.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802222223031065440009.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016