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Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion.

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Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion.

Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Nat…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flickering
  • vertical movement

Animation Summary

  • Continuous flickering vertical motion of pixelated flames against black background

Composition

  • vertical
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

The image displays a series of vertical, pixelated flame shapes in varying shades of orange and yellow against a solid black background. The flames exhibit a flickering animation pattern with subtle vertical movement, creating a dynamic effect. The pixelation is consistent across all visible flame elements, with no additional objects or text present. The animation shows continuous motion without distinct keyframes or pauses.

Description

  • Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • flames animation
  • orange yellow black flames
  • pixelated flame animation
  • vertical flickering flames
  • animated flames black background
  • flickering fire animation
  • black background flames
  • pixelated fire animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Wordwall

  • vertical flames
  • orange and yellow
  • black background
  • flickering animation
  • pixelated
  • dynamic motion
  • no text
  • no objects
  • solid black
  • vertical orientation

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 11, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
12397
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:49 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 11, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3b7776909ce175ff3caf6f454f2b1cb16e2e34bee5f3791bf3b9558dc8a46d3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 11, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Archive ID
b3b7776909ce175f
SHA-256
b3b7776909ce175ff3caf6f454f2b1cb16e2e34bee5f3791bf3b9558dc8a46d3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080370

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.921842onnx/unsafe0.080370onnx/nsfw0.043948onnx/nsfl0.036421
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion.

Reviewed
August 24, 2026 at 14:46 UTC
Run
68
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,858 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,076, response 686

Review tags

  • flickering (action, 0.80)
  • moving vertically (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • vertical movement (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flames (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • flickering
  • moving vertically

Animation

  • flickering
  • vertical movement

Animation Summary

  • Continuous flickering vertical motion of pixelated flames against black background

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • vertical
  • solid background
  • no borders

Dense Caption

The image displays a series of vertical, pixelated flame shapes in varying shades of orange and yellow against a solid black background. The flames exhibit a flickering animation pattern with subtle vertical movement, creating a dynamic effect. The pixelation is consistent across all visible flame elements, with no additional objects or text present. The animation shows continuous motion without distinct keyframes or pauses.

Description

  • Animated vertical flames in warm orange and yellow hues against a black background, with flickering motion.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • dynamic
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • flames animation
  • orange yellow black flames
  • pixelated flame animation
  • vertical flickering flames
  • animated flames black background
  • flickering fire animation
  • black background flames
  • pixelated fire animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible artifacts

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2005
  • provenance era: 2011
  • provenance source-name: Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
  • provenance topic-coverage: action
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: animals
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: cars
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: dolls
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • flames

Wordwall

  • vertical flames
  • orange and yellow
  • black background
  • flickering animation
  • pixelated
  • dynamic motion
  • no text
  • no objects
  • solid black
  • vertical orientation
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 03:41 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (1)
TagConf.Evidenceimg0.80wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · category · broad · observation-category
Full source records (1)
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
12397
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/12397.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20111125215600id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/12397.gif