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Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states.

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Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states.

Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flames flicker

Animation Summary

  • flames flicker between two states

Composition

  • text centered
  • flames at bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Black text: 'HOT' (top), '4' (middle), 'YOU' (bottom). Orange flames at bottom. Left frame: flames have 4 distinct orange flame shapes. Right frame: flames have 5 distinct orange flame shapes. All text and background remain static. Flame shapes change between frames.

Description

  • Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HOT 4 YOU flames
  • yellow background flames
  • text-based flames
  • flames flicker

Preprocessing Notes

  • flames flicker between two states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image

Visible Text

  • HOT
  • 4
  • YOU

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black text
  • HOT
  • 4
  • YOU
  • orange flames
  • flames flicker
  • 4 flame shapes
  • 5 flame shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904081817331275925041
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
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
b27614e80b6427cc
SHA-256
b27614e80b6427cc76e3d5d48893df72394bc5597cca9aef423e723535cbd64c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105330

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,550 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 584

Review tags

  • flicker (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • flames flicker (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • flames (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flicker

Animation

  • flames flicker

Animation Summary

  • flames flicker between two states

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • text centered
  • flames at bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow background. Black text: 'HOT' (top), '4' (middle), 'YOU' (bottom). Orange flames at bottom. Left frame: flames have 4 distinct orange flame shapes. Right frame: flames have 5 distinct orange flame shapes. All text and background remain static. Flame shapes change between frames.

Description

  • Yellow background with black text 'HOT 4 YOU' and orange flames at the bottom; the flames flicker between two states.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HOT 4 YOU flames
  • yellow background flames
  • text-based flames
  • flames flicker

Objects

  • flames

Preprocessing Notes

  • flames flicker between two states

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by image

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • flames

Visible Text

  • HOT
  • 4
  • YOU

Wordwall

  • yellow background
  • black text
  • HOT
  • 4
  • YOU
  • orange flames
  • flames flicker
  • 4 flame shapes
  • 5 flame shapes
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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
200904081817331275925041
Archive entry
200904081817331275925041.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#200904081817331275925041.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904081817331275925041.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016