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Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three and animated white symbols changing in sequence

Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three and animated white symbols changing in sequence. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to X in first
  • symbols change from plus sign to dot to colon in second
  • symbols change from dots to dots to dots in third

Animation Summary

Symbols change sequentially from plus sign to asterisk to X in first , plus sign to dot to colon in second , and dots to dots to dots in third while text remains static

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'UGH.' in three rows of three. First row symbols: plus sign, asterisk, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, colon. Third row symbols: dots, dots, dots. Symbols animate sequentially from left to right across rows. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three and animated white symbols changing in sequence

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • UGH. animated symbols
  • black background white text UGH
  • pixelated UGH. symbols
  • three UGH. animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • X
  • dot

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three rows and animated white symbols changing in sequence.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Symbols change sequentially from plus sign to asterisk to X in first row, plus sign to dot to colon in second row, and dots to dots to dots in third row while text remains static.
  • quarantined wordwall: three columns
  • quarantined wordwall: three rows
  • quarantined composition: three columns
  • quarantined composition: three rows
  • quarantined animation: symbols change from dots to dots to dots in third row
  • quarantined animation: symbols change from plus sign to dot to colon in second row
  • quarantined animation: symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to X in first row
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows UGH. animation

Visible Text

  • UGH.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • UGH.
  • three
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • dot
  • colon
  • dots
  • pixelated
  • animated symbols
  • static text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806151837111058383652
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
405 bytes
Motion
Animated (9 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c8/c83f8e824b74ed78b16635eb7fd4662bbbd6f410526a0e0b8a60cdff7778b4c7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
c83f8e824b74ed78
SHA-256
c83f8e824b74ed78b16635eb7fd4662bbbd6f410526a0e0b8a60cdff7778b4c7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091430

OpenAI category scores

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Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three and animated white symbols changing in sequence

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 682

Review tags

  • symbols animate sequentially (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • annoyed (mood, 0.80)
  • frustrated (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisk (object, 0.80)
  • colon (object, 0.80)
  • dot (object, 0.80)
  • dots (object, 0.80)
  • plus sign (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • symbols animate sequentially

Animation

  • symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to X in first
  • symbols change from plus sign to dot to colon in second
  • symbols change from dots to dots to dots in third

Animation Summary

Symbols change sequentially from plus sign to asterisk to X in first , plus sign to dot to colon in second , and dots to dots to dots in third while text remains static

Colors

  • black
  • white

Composition

  • three
  • text above symbols

Dense Caption

Black background with white text 'UGH.' in three rows of three. First row symbols: plus sign, asterisk, X. Second row symbols: plus sign, dot, colon. Third row symbols: dots, dots, dots. Symbols animate sequentially from left to right across rows. Text remains static. All elements are pixelated.

Description

  • Black background with white text 'UGH.' repeated across three and animated white symbols changing in sequence

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • frustrated
  • annoyed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • UGH. animated symbols
  • black background white text UGH
  • pixelated UGH. symbols
  • three UGH. animation

Objects

  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • dot
  • colon
  • dots

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined animation: symbols change from dots to dots to dots in third row
  • quarantined animation: symbols change from plus sign to dot to colon in second row
  • quarantined animation: symbols change from plus sign to asterisk to X in first row
  • quarantined retrieval: three rows UGH. animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • UGH.

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white text
  • UGH.
  • three
  • plus sign
  • asterisk
  • X
  • dot
  • colon
  • dots
  • pixelated
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  • static text
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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
200806151837111058383652
Archive entry
200806151837111058383652.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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

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