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Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners.

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Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners.

Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered lightning
  • four-corner text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated lightning bolts radiate from the center against a solid blue background. Four instances of the text 'lightning!' appear in black pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The lightning bolts have jagged, branching structures typical of pixel art. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners.

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

  • cyan lightning bolts blue background
  • lightning text four corners
  • pixelated lightning bolts
  • blue background lightning text
  • cyan lightning black text
  • lightning bolts repeated text
  • pixel art lightning bolts
  • four corners lightning text

Visible Text

  • lightning!

Wordwall

  • cyan lightning bolts
  • blue background
  • black text
  • lightning!
  • pixelated
  • four corners
  • jagged branches
  • solid background
  • repeated text
  • centered bolts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904161741511314982442
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
987 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 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
ca31f3f093e55fb4
SHA-256
ca31f3f093e55fb41490b4e367aa5c0937a98515f177ef64ee0bcb86ca67efa1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121341

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,227 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 591

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • lightning bolts (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • centered lightning
  • four-corner text
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Cyan pixelated lightning bolts radiate from the center against a solid blue background. Four instances of the text 'lightning!' appear in black pixelated font: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The lightning bolts have jagged, branching structures typical of pixel art. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan lightning bolts and repeated black text 'lightning!' in four corners.

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

  • dynamic
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan lightning bolts blue background
  • lightning text four corners
  • pixelated lightning bolts
  • blue background lightning text
  • cyan lightning black text
  • lightning bolts repeated text
  • pixel art lightning bolts
  • four corners lightning text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • lightning bolts

Visible Text

  • lightning!

Wordwall

  • cyan lightning bolts
  • blue background
  • black text
  • lightning!
  • pixelated
  • four corners
  • jagged branches
  • solid background
  • repeated text
  • centered bolts
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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
200904161741511314982442
Archive entry
200904161741511314982442.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#200904161741511314982442.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904161741511314982442.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016