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Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame.

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Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame.

Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • flames continuously swirl
  • text changes from "LET THE FLAMES" to "BEGIN!" with a dotted line in one frame

Animation Summary

  • Flames swirl continuously; text changes from "LET THE FLAMES" to a dotted line then to "BEGIN!"

Composition

  • central flame swirl
  • text overlays on left frames

Dense Caption

The image shows an animated sequence of orange and red swirling flames. In the top-left frame, white pixelated text reads "LET THE FLAMES" over the flames. The top-right frame displays only the flame animation with a horizontal row of white dots replacing the text. The bottom-left frame features the text "BEGIN!" in the same style as the previous text. All frames share the same swirling flame background and pixelated visual style.

Description

  • Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007102207102918924130

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • flames swirling pixelated text
  • LET THE FLAMES BEGIN animation
  • dotted line flame animation
  • orange red animated flames

Visible Text

  • LET THE FLAMES
  • BEGIN!

Wordwall

  • swirling flames
  • orange red colors
  • pixelated text
  • LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
  • dotted line replacement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007102207102918924130
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d0ef00d8825fb35f72153dd04ad998207a4711823284236c869b9ba330c6b852.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
d0ef00d8825fb35f
SHA-256
d0ef00d8825fb35f72153dd04ad998207a4711823284236c869b9ba330c6b852
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078688

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928409onnx/unsafe0.078688onnx/nsfw0.044795onnx/nsfl0.033894
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Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,477 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 681

Review tags

  • swirling (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dramatic (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • flames continuously swirl (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • flames (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swirling

Animation

  • flames continuously swirl
  • text changes from "LET THE FLAMES" to "BEGIN!" with a dotted line in one frame

Animation Summary

  • Flames swirl continuously; text changes from "LET THE FLAMES" to a dotted line then to "BEGIN!"

Colors

  • orange
  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central flame swirl
  • text overlays on left frames

Dense Caption

The image shows an animated sequence of orange and red swirling flames. In the top-left frame, white pixelated text reads "LET THE FLAMES" over the flames. The top-right frame displays only the flame animation with a horizontal row of white dots replacing the text. The bottom-left frame features the text "BEGIN!" in the same style as the previous text. All frames share the same swirling flame background and pixelated visual style.

Description

  • Animated flames with text overlays reading "LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!" and a dotted line in one frame.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007102207102918924130

Mood

  • energetic
  • dramatic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • flames swirling pixelated text
  • LET THE FLAMES BEGIN animation
  • dotted line flame animation
  • orange red animated flames

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated

Subjects

  • flames

Visible Text

  • LET THE FLAMES
  • BEGIN!

Wordwall

  • swirling flames
  • orange red colors
  • pixelated text
  • LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!
  • dotted line replacement
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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
2007102207102918924130
Archive entry
2007102207102918924130.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#2007102207102918924130.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007102207102918924130.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016